Luna didn't understand, but she nodded. Surely even if Vera made herself a bad person, that didn't mean that she wasn't really a good person underneath. Maybe she could turn back later, when people stopped being so mean to her. Or if everything changed, they'd all be more free to be themselves.
It seemed to her that Vera had a tendency to punish herself too much - after all, the helping had been done partially out of guilt over what her family had done, hadn't she said that? - but it didn't matter.
"Okay," she said simply. "I just want you to be happy, Vera. There are so many things to make people unhappy in the world right now."