The only part worse than meeting with the boring people is meeting with the boring people who are secretly working to screw everything over. Or the allies who suddenly decide you're more powerful than they're really comfortable with and can't you just go away now that you've solved all their problems?

They don't tell you that you don't get to sleep soundly anymore. That sometimes there are no right choices, and when people get hurt or killed? You're the one who gets to revisit that in an endless loop whenever you're alone--

[ She sighs quietly, suddenly falling silent. This isn't what she meant to do, to turn this into some kind of pity party. Tucker didn't want to hear it, he had other things on his mind. Here she was dragging the subject somewhere far darker than she'd meant to. ]

--Sorry. Sort of got caught on a tangent there, didn't I?

[ There's a dry little chuckle, but it sounds a little tired, too. ]