It was strange for Dove, someone asking questions about things she didn't say, but she wasn't entirely thrown off by it. "They get killed. Curiosity kills the cat. That's the saying." She knew it was only part of the saying, but the point was that people letting themselves wonder too much would find danger, they'd get hit with something they maybe weren't prepared for, and in this case in particular, that's what happened. If she'd just mind her own business, said hello to Izzy and moved on, she wouldn't have all these questions now.
Although the next question had Dove frowning, "An Outsider? What does S.E Hinton have to do with anything? Although I will admit that Rob Lowe is still especially good looking. It's like he doesn't age at all." She wasn't sure what that meant, or if she'd missed something entirely, she probably had. Even if she felt a little bad that she was making something difficult for someone else, she'd never really learned to calm her thoughts, she was a mile a minute thinker, she tended to just run with whatever was happening in her mind and just embrace it.
Sandy was bringing up a lot of points, and they were things that Dove had thought -even if they were fleeting while the self-doubt and hurt swirled more and shaped her thinking, it wasn't like she didn't realise that it wasn't just her, and even those others with their full powers blocked, she didn't think it was fair on them either. It was partially why she was learning how to fight, with Bear. Because she couldn't defend herself, and if she was sent out in the field without control and without her powers -because she might kill her whole team if she didn't mind what she did out in the field, one wrong arm movement and she could take out a building, well why was she there? She couldn't possibly be expected to learn how to control things if she couldn't use them, and she was vulnerable without her powers.
"I don't think I'm better than anyone," it was quite, half whispered, because while Dove tried to be the best in class and during training and the best friend she could be, the best daughter -which she was sure she messed up entirely when she was sent to this place (had she been expelled from school? That felt like it was likely what happened after the gym, oh God, she was an even bigger failure. Expelled was worse than being taken into Regiment.) but it was hard to tell since she never even got to talk to her parents afterwards. "I don't want to be like... like better than someone just because I'm... I break stuff, people and buildings and the ground. I just want to be able to not do that if I don't want to."
Who she was, not what she did, it was a nice sentiment, and Dove would like to cling to it. She wished she could, but it seemed like who she was wasn't enough for the Regiment higher-ups to think she was worth getting some measure of allowance, that she should be allowed to have some access to her powers. If it was about who she was and not what she did, they should trust her, let her learn. Treating her like she was dangerous and unpredictable and a mess just made her feel like maybe she was, and maybe she shouldn't have any powers at all. "I wish I could think like that."