[He looks at her for a moment, quiet understanding in his eyes. While Kate was seen as something she wasn't, he felt as if he was seen as not being good enough.

They were equally annoying for very different reasons, and it was true that she could sympathize with him.]

Change is hard. [Always. People were complicated and they didn't like to have to adjust sometimes. In some ways, he wasn't so different most of them.] But it's not like you're asking me to act like someone else, or trying to run this place or something.