"No, that's not it," Veronica replied with a shake of her head, and looked briefly away. It wasn't that she necessarily minded talking about J.D., it just wasn't that easy to explain. Never mind that it made her look like a terrible person, and truth or not, she'd rather not point out her own awfulness this early.

She squinted back up at Cougar. "I just kind of went through a thing before I got here," she tried with an ineffectual motion of one hand. "People died. It wasn't fun."