"Not entirely on my own. I live with my sister - few years older than me. You'd like her, I think. Problem is she's getting her master's across the pond and so her flat's pretty much mine. It sucks that your friends abandoned you... doesn't sound like they were your friends at all, mate." He gave that normal big grin of his. "Friends, real friends, are the family you make for yourself. "Blood is thicker than water doesn't mean family blood. Blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb. That whole thing."