"You don't know that," Blaze told her. "This place... It feels like a cruel joke at times. I was kept from my home, my duty, for so long. I would have given anything to be able to go back. But once I could, I could come to peace with being here. Now that I'm cut off from my world again, things are different, and... I'm more confused now than I ever was."

Blaze frowned and looked down. "He may be back, you know," she said. "I've seen so many friends come and go from here. Sometimes they remember me, and the things we did, sometimes they don't..." She looked at Rouge with earnestness. "When you first arrived, you prodded me about my relationship with Sonic. I've... I've loved him for a long time now. But I never would have told him if not for the fact that things here are so uncertain, that I had no idea how long we would have together. I didn't want to risk never getting the chance again..."