action;
[ with her skates on tightly, she moves to stand up, reaching out to her husband with a hand to steady herself. it gives her a chance to evaluate her answer. she understands his hesitation, felt it herself when she first heard they had a former drone here, but all of her interactions with seven have been relatively positive, even with the harsh reminders of her borg past. despite attempts to the contrary, the crew of the enterprise would always be scarred by prejudice where the borg was concerned. the trick is how to overcome that prejudice to understand the individual presented to them. ]
No, I don't. I don't sense much of anything from her. My abilities are limited compared to what they normally would be, but I haven't sensed the Collective since we arrived here. She speaks as an individual who grew up as one of them, but I sense none of their hostility in her. If I had to explain it further, I would say that she is experiencing culture shock. She's been thrust into a human environment and is expected to be one of them as though she had grown up human.
[ that is the difficulty for seven, as far as deanna can tell. as for the rest of them... honestly, deanna feels that seven's situation is like captain picard's, only on a much larger scale. both were assimilated against their will. the difference is in time spent with the collective. and as far as deanna is concerned, how can they not offer to seven's situation the same respect and understanding that they automatically give their captain's? ]