Sometimes, it takes a long time for friends to get to the point where they consider themselves family. Sometimes, they have to know each other for years and years before they’ll consider really letting each other into their lives. Sometimes, under certain circumstances and with certain people, what bonds are usually formed in a lifetime of acquaintance are formed in a matter of days. What everyone thought needs time, well, doesn’t. It never has needed time, though time does seem to help. Rather, in our opinion, the thing that matters the most is willingness to let them become family. In other words, trust. Trusting others with the very truth of who we are isn't the easiest thing to do. Though, there are the few anomalies that give us hope; hope that we don't have to be alone, well, only if we choose to be; since after all, isn't man's greatest power the power of timshel?