Kennedy went silent for a few seconds; she was genuinely not used to that kind of response from Tara.

"Okay, whoa," she said slowly. "You know you and me never really saw eye to eye on that point."

That was a thing that would've always been a problem for them, even if the last year and a half hadn't panned out the way they did.

"But... I mean, by this point maybe I am going to have to start looking at my other options." She'd be twenty next year. That was, like, ancient.