Oh - she's the one who saved me from my first show! Things were...never great there, but they'd started to go a little south...
[The Balladeer grimaces, looking away. The whole thing was sort of scary and confusing; he doesn't really want to get into it.]
And she just showed up out of nowhere and got me out of there! She's - literally the first friend I ever had. No one from before was even nice to me, really. Sometimes Charlie would be okay, but he was so volatile, you couldn't really relax around him.
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[The Balladeer grimaces, looking away. The whole thing was sort of scary and confusing; he doesn't really want to get into it.]
And she just showed up out of nowhere and got me out of there! She's - literally the first friend I ever had. No one from before was even nice to me, really. Sometimes Charlie would be okay, but he was so volatile, you couldn't really relax around him.
[Does this sound sort of familiar?]