You sound confident. [And while it doesn't make her believe it any more than she already did, it is still reassuring somehow.] I don't know if I really want it to be this week or next week anyway. I just got some new books from the library and I was going to try a thing with my hair. [And this is the place where she has a life, such as it is. Only this place or others like it and she knows she could be in a worse one.

She pulls back from the hug, a little reluctantly and not too far.] But they should be defeated. [That's the mission. They're the bad guys. She fights the bad guys. No matter what happens to her in the process. That's how it works. That's how it always worked. Maybe not always, but the life of that child who loved to dance and learn about computers feels so distant.]