“How can I not be nervous, Trust we can’t have another city be destroyed,” Betts said when her frown grows deeper. “My worry doesn’t stem from just nothing, and even if we’re confident that we could do something, nothing is a guarantee. The world isn’t as luck-filled as we do, not everyone can be…”
There was a twinge of hesitation inside her mind, again, not the usual doubt towards her true voice to her acceptance, not sharing it with Trust and their bodily situation, rather it’s the same kind of mental and emotional anxiety when she left the workforce. Finding out that she is unreliable and disappointing, useless or to the point of weakness in the face of distress, the kind she couldn’t control is a perfectionist speaking from her mind but nothing of it could not be contained.
Once she saw the darkness, blinking lights of a gunshot, smoke, the smell of blood, and death, everything became
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