picard + seven
She did grow up Borg, and her tainted perceptions of the universe would forever color her outlook. Her childhood was taken from her, and that which she did get to experience written over with necessity and protocol, memories that were deemed irrelevant discarded and locked away. There were members of her crew who had expected her to revert back to her human self with ease, forgetting that the last time she was human, she was nothing more than a frightened, wide-eyed little girl. And that little girl was damaged and buried, largely inaccessible to her.
She wasn't Annika anymore. She may never be again.
"It is," she readily conceded, grateful for his unique perspective on her situation. "I am adapting. That, at the very least, is something I know how to do well."