[ They're so similar, she and this soldier, that it aches a little to see herself reflected back like this. In the early days after discovering her mutation, after the incident on the Statue of Liberty, she'd been terrified of training with her powers. To try to control them, she needed to learn her limits, and the only one to do that... Absorbing people she considered friends and allies was the last thing she'd wanted to do, and it had taken quite a while to move past that fear of hurting others before she could do what she needed to.
She has to remind herself that she doesn't know his story, that it could be so much worse than her own and so she shouldn't pry. He's made a decision and it's not her place to demand he justify it. ]
(I've trained with a lot of dangerous people in my life. If you change your mind, I'm always willing to help.) [ And that's where she'll leave it, nothing more than an open offer for him to do with as he sees fit. ]
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She has to remind herself that she doesn't know his story, that it could be so much worse than her own and so she shouldn't pry. He's made a decision and it's not her place to demand he justify it. ]
( I've trained with a lot of dangerous people in my life. If you change your mind, I'm always willing to help. ) [ And that's where she'll leave it, nothing more than an open offer for him to do with as he sees fit. ]