Almost no one besides the scientists in HYDRA had seen her powers, and she wasn't quite sure what how to react to the praise now. (She liked it, just a little bit, even if it also made her feel a little shy in a way that she didn't fully understood. She didn't even know if shy was the right word.) But no one had ever looked at her like this in regard to her power, not like how he had just did.
Plenty of the HYDRA people had been afraid of her. And so many of them had viewed her power as almost a separate thing, as if she were of no consequence. The power had picked her, they had said. But it had grown from inside her. She understood that, even if they didn't. It was something that had always been there. The scepter had just unlocked it. They were one and the same.