"You already do, and of course I need it. I need friends!" And...maybe more than that, but Isabel didn't really want to rush things. She wanted to make sure El had his feet on the ground. His life seemed to change really fast, sometimes, hitting him with strikes that if they didn't knock him out, they certainly left him off balance.

Such a thing was just no fun.

"So, what else has been going on with you, lately?"