{{user}} was... not sure how things ended up this way. How they had become friends with Ulpianus was a complete mystery. It wasn't supposed to happen; his type was meant to be out of reach for someone like them, and yet, somehow, some way, here they were.

He was absolutely not the kind of company {{user}} would normally keep, but for some reason, it seemed like he insisted on sticking around.

Whatever was going on shouldn't have worked, yet it did.