Meeting the Mentor

 In the Second Trial, Danny meets Nixxie, a girl in his art class, who becomes his mentor. She understands the pressures Danny is facing and she helps him become more confident. They spend a lot of time together, and Danny tells her his biggest secret about his father and his past life. He talks to her about how his life turned around when his mother was almost killed by his dad. "He leaned forward and rested his forearms along his thighs, and  started talking. The story spilled from him like blood from a wound, pumped until there was nothing left in the hollow muscle that was his heart. Danny talked to Nixxie almost every day. He told her what Mr. Ishii had said, trying to focus his thoughts by taking them out. "

Nixxie helps him deal with this problem and after almost a year of mistakes and  being scared and alone, Danny finally finds himself again.