It is different. Back home there are classmates he would maybe consider friends or at least potential friends. But Jade's always been cautious. He holds back and either has to use someone in a plan or else he wants to observe them. All petty things like that, all excuses.

Here those excuses don't work quite so well, because he can't get away with being devious. He has to be even more careful and it puts even more barriers in front of him. People don't always brush his shadiness off.

"...no, I'm 18 and you're 17 or did you forget, Mr. Couldn't be here when either I or Azuul arrived." He's never going to let Floyd forget this. Especially since he wasn't there for their birthday. The nerve.