[ Drake listens to the explanation, smiling faintly at it and the way Carolina talks about the younger soldiers. She liked them all, he thinks, at least in a way. You don't keep going out with people that just annoy you, or just out of loneliness. He's glad she had them. ]

That sounds nice -- and like it might've started as them hoping you'd tell stories about the others, but they didn't have to keep inviting you all the time. They probably looked up to you a lot, too, as one of the leaders.