"Hey, trying is the hardest part sometimes. You get that much going and you make it work and the rest should come easy."

Knuckles' situation was different, of course. He'd never wanted to be anything else. Even if it meant always being something of an outsider looking in. When he'd met Shade, the one other Echidna who had come to this school from an alternate dimension, he'd learned more about his heritage and his resolve to do well by his race had been strengthened a hundredfold. Voile had an advantage in that she had a thriving race to connect with. Knuckles would give many things to be able to say the same.