I don't have any real friends back home either. Entirely my fault of course, I preferred it to be that way. [She takes a sip from her tea, sighing afterwards.] But things changed when I came here.

[Her reasons for not making friends back home were probably different from Ned's and Bela wasn't going to go into them if she didn't have to.]

A while after I arrived I found that the people in this place weren't so bad.