Billy should have been happy to see Steph, Korra, and Atka. They were the three people he cared most about in Darrow but somehow that only made it worse, becuase he had to admit that they were going to leave him too. He just- he just didn't know if he could keep doing this, keep losing people. Since arriving here he'd become so much more open and accepting but now he just... it didn't seem worth it.

"Alex is gone," he said, unable to even lift his head to look up from the floor. If he looked up and saw Steph worried about him he just might lose it. "She was just in the kitchen one second and the next she's just... gone. Just like Frigga. Like all the foster families and my parents and just... they all leave."

Billy took a shuddering breath and told himself he wouldn't cry. Not in front of Steph and Korra. He hated this, it hurt so much less when he didn't care, when he didn't get close to anyone.