"Ah, and you're here to get a witch to point me towards the yellow brick road." Carol replied sarcastically. She remembered that movie playing on a loop when Sophia was just a baby. Than Ed had returned home from work and demanded it be turned off. She had obeyed, not wanting him to make their daughter cry. Perhaps this hallucination was a reminder of how far she'd come. This Carol would never let anyone walk over her or her family.
Carol searched her brain, trying to remember a Johnn or a Redell. There had been so many people entering and leaving her life, and in the different communities. She couldn't attach a particular significance to either name. Space stations and robots had even less meaning. She really was losing her mind. She rolled her eyes. "Of course." Even if Alpha wasn't outside, there'd be another threat. There always was and she'd find a way to kill that threat too, hopefully before more people died. "I'm always safe. It's everyone else that I keep losing."