Adalynn stopped what she was doing, her hand frozen on
 
 the mouse. She was instructing Cassia on the basics of the
 
 editing software and Cassia was following along the best she
 
 could, which wasn’t very well at all. Adalynn was right about
 
 the camera. It had been much simpler to learn how to use, at
 
 least for video, than the editing was to figure out. The software
 
 was expensive and advanced and there were so many different
 
 nuances and little tricks to learn along the way. It was
 
 probably the kind of thing that took weeks and weeks to
 
 master, if not months or even years. Adalynn was a pro and
 
 made it look easy, but Cassia knew that if she wasn’t there,
 
 she’d be utterly lost in the maze of clicks and commands.
 
 “Sure.” Adalynn made her response sound like a question.
 
 She smiled softly, a little ruefully, as she realized that herself.
 
 “I mean, yes, you can. I take it it’s not about editing, or you
 
 would have just asked instead of asking me if you could ask. I
 
 think it’s probably more personal.”
 
 Cassia nodded. “You don’t have to answer if you don’t want
 
 to.”
 
 Adalynn’s lips pressed into a tight line, but it was by no
 
 means firm. She looked more like she was bracing herself than
 
 she was annoyed. “Go ahead.”
 
 “Well, it’s just that, now that I’ve spent most of the time
 
 scraping and it’s kind of a methodical job and the music only
 
 goes so far—I guess I should really upgrade to e-books or
 
 something more entertaining—I’ve been thinking a lot over
 
 the past couple days. More than normal. All I have to time to
 
 do is think.”
 
 “Okay…”
 
 “And, uh, I was thinking that when you do these videos, it’s