i like to think that helen really was just clueless about what friendship was. i mean, it makes sense. imagine you’re a thing that only exists to confuse, scare, and deceive, and one day you become someone who wants to be around people and have friends. but you have no further context for what either of those concepts imply. of course you’d interpret it as a game of sorts, a new way to lie, is there a difference between “friend” and “victim”? you don’t know. how could you know? you have desires that aren’t your own, and you have to act on them to get rid of that horrible feeling you’ve never quite felt before, but you don’t know what actually gets rid of that feeling. you have to be around people now. that doesn’t mean you’re going to stop being what you are.