She smiled. She'd been doing more of that, lately, it was becoming a little easier maybe now that they were all moving past the first round of the emotional unburdening. Five years was a long time to live with a weight on her shoulders, and she didn't quite know how to slough it all off at once. It was funny, how much she hadn't realized what she'd been living beneath until she'd ended up in a place where it didn't exist, where there wasn't anything to struggle beneath or push back against.
Maybe she was softer now, all these years on. Well - no maybe about it, she knew she was. She remembered the woman who'd hit the Lemerian Star with Steve and the rest of their strike team and some days it felt like a memory of some other woman entirely. Maybe it was just that she was tired, in the kind of way that wouldn't be improved by a couple nights of steady sleep. But now that it turned out this wasn't really the end of everything, she didn't want to live the rest of her life, however long it would end up being, in that kind of exhaustion.
"Wouldn't be the first time you had to teach me a couple things," she agreed. "I've been known to be more fun than I'm sure I've been lately, you know. I'm not always this... recently dead? Openly emotional as a result of it? That's a weird thing to feel like I should be apologizing for, probably."