Well, it is hot and there isn't much water, so maybe the way that a desert should be.

I miss my friends, too.

[He thinks of Roman, of Little Jacob. Of Dwayne. He doesn't know where Packie went. But Boone is good, too. He gets it, and that's nice. He doesn't call him and idiot for feeling the way he feels, or a jerk. He even likes how he is.]

What are your friends like?