I know, it probably sounds kinda crazy. [A nervous laugh.] But each world got a robot and fifteen pilots, and we had to fight one another. And whoever lost... well, I guess you can figure out what happened then, based on what I told you before.
[Sliding her fingertips over the glass covering the picture.] I was only the fourth pilot, so I didn't get to know them very well. But I always considered them my friends.