Trying to be a little more sensitive about it, Rich took a sip of his beer and sighed.

"You were really close, weren't you. Like I am with Vance. With my old friends from home."

Or maybe it was more like Starlord, someone he'd fought and bled with on the battlefield.

He could understand that, why it would be so hard to cut someone off entirely, cut them out of your life like the infection they were.