[Wanda knows Adam was basically right. After all, she'd told him when they first met that she'd only had them for a few years. Yet... in a few years, was this truly as far as she had come in mastering them? She had thought she was stronger than this, but her bandaged leg served as the perfect reality check.]

And how much time would that be? How much time must pass before I can successfully defend both myself and those I care about?

[Her words are bitter; her frustration now being inadvertently channeled and redirected at Adam.]