Whitefish River I'm leaving now, as I should be

Huh, said Alyx, as if the very concept of best friends breaking up was inconceivable to her. Of course it was! It wasn't like she really had a true best friend. She considered Val to be that, romantic idealist that she was, but truth be told, she didn't know him very well. It was almost inevitable that he would someday break the vision she had of him in her head, and then where would they be?

Hopefully not where Fennec and Penn stood with one another.

He doesn't sound like a very good friend if he disappears when he's bored, Alyx commented, I can see why you don't hang out anymore. She wondered if Fennec was sad about it, but thought it might be best not to ask.

Bobbing her head, Alyx said, there's Val, he's like my coolest best friend, but there were others. Solar or something like that, I can't really remember, and really, the girl had been a bit on the grumpy side anyway, and there was another girl there who looks a bit like me, but she didn't tell me her name. Alyx likely would have butchered it, anyway, just like Solaire's, because she'd really only had eyes for Valravn at the time. I can't wait to see them again, she giddily added.