"But maybe that's just it," Veronica says as she looks to Raven. "Maybe all of this—" She motions with both hands to the knot of them arguing. "Maybe that's the point. They're just colors, it's just clothes. None of it actually means anything. There's nobody here with any answers, so any meaning is something we assign to them."

She wants to say she understands this, that she's been in the middle of this sort of thing before, but bites back the urge to explain. From the outside, suggesting that her high school experiences make her an expert on anything are pretty laughable, but none of these people ever felt the fury of Heather Chandler, either.