It just was less weird, okay? And maybe Atton had put Sia on a pedestal for a while, there, when he'd been a student. Made it weirder when you finally realized you couldn't genuinely talk to someone because they were so much younger than you were. On every level.

Sparkle was different. No pedestal, for one, and besides, the kid had seen enough crap in his life that, well, at least it still felt like they had something in common.

He sighed. "Yeah, because between you and Skywalker, I have such an active social life."