CT stays comparatively stock-still, sat there watching the frustrated energy burst out of Carolina in a rush of aimless motion. Sometimes she wishes she were as prone to physical reaction as the other women of Alpha Squad have always seemed to be—though South most of all, of course.
"There's no way you could've known. Even I couldn't prove anything until I found it in writing, and I was the one she actually talked to me about what she felt was happening. And even then, she didn't seem to really... believe herself? She was always so determined to fix it. To earn her way back."
It never worked, it never could have worked, but she tried. Right up until the day CT left, she remembers how stubbornly South tried, no matter how much it left her feeling worse at the end of the day for the lack of return.
She sighs. "...so, no, I'm not surprised she's doing badly. She's— a lot more sensitive than she'd like people to know, which I'm sure you've seen by now. She feels everything with the strength of a damn atom bomb and sometimes it catches other people in the blast radius. I'm surprised she even came to you for help."
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Date: 2026-01-13 09:21 pm (UTC)CT stays comparatively stock-still, sat there watching the frustrated energy burst out of Carolina in a rush of aimless motion. Sometimes she wishes she were as prone to physical reaction as the other women of Alpha Squad have always seemed to be—though South most of all, of course.
"There's no way you could've known. Even I couldn't prove anything until I found it in writing, and I was the one she actually talked to me about what she felt was happening. And even then, she didn't seem to really... believe herself? She was always so determined to fix it. To earn her way back."
It never worked, it never could have worked, but she tried. Right up until the day CT left, she remembers how stubbornly South tried, no matter how much it left her feeling worse at the end of the day for the lack of return.
She sighs. "...so, no, I'm not surprised she's doing badly. She's— a lot more sensitive than she'd like people to know, which I'm sure you've seen by now. She feels everything with the strength of a damn atom bomb and sometimes it catches other people in the blast radius. I'm surprised she even came to you for help."