She began the same fortnight I did. The bar can tell the difference and I cannot argue with it.

Now the harder question. What did I get instead?

Answer honestly, because it is not nothing.
There are four people in this building who would come out at midnight for me.
She has two.

Hold both of those at once. The question was never which is worth more.
The question is whether I chose, or only drifted into the one that never asked me for anything.

The Book of the Bard — Wall 53:8