Dove's parents hadn't known about her powers until the viral video spread across their state and Dove was already in Government care, kept in one of the facilities until she was eighteen and then sent here. She was still trying to adapt to this life, but she'd at least had high school, the dances, learning how to drive. Avery had just been in the facilities since then. Avery had been in Government care since before Dove was born.
It was stunning, all the things Avery would've missed about life outside the compound, but she supposed that was what made it easy, never having done them or seen them, you couldn't miss them. "It's not old. It's... mid life, right?" Although she supposed midlife was meant to be later, maybe for supers it would be much later. But it seemed like in this place it could be much earlier too.
Missions being an array of different groupings wasn't really as comforting as it maybe should be, but she supposed that was the point. Not ever situation would be the same. She still didn't like the fact that she might need to go out and get someone, someone young like her and rip them away from their life. Dangerous ones, she could sort of understand -she'd been dangerous, she couldn't control her power, still couldn't, so she understood that. But some people were like Raven. And Dove would give anything for Raven to still have that chance at life. "I guess that's why I agreed to learn how to fight. In case I have to... go out on a mission."
But what good would she be if she couldn't control her powers? "I'm just worried that this isn't actually right." And she didn't know if she'd get into trouble for just saying that.