We knew each other in passing, but I wouldn't have called us friends. We worked in different divisions, but the Enclave forces in the Capital weren't very large and he was briefly with Research and Development as a technician before he switched to army command.

He was an intern in my lab for six months when he was eighteen or so. I was a twenty-two year old junior researcher at the time. I gained a general sense of his personality and habits but it wasn't as if we shared our innermost thoughts and dreams with each other.