[ Simon feels like he's mentally gone over all of this, but to Catherine, it'd been straight from their fight to waking up here, in a human body, biddable and out of her element in the extreme. There hasn't been any safe places for her to process her feelings. She's barely told anyone where she'd come from to start with. Factually telling what'd happened wasn't nearly the same as feeling it, and there's been a lot of feelings she's kept on simmer, ready to boil over.
Even now, they don't precisely boil over. She'd had her outburst, and seeing Simon castigating himself already, mirroring the loss she's experiencing, quells all the rest. ]
... It's not stupid, [ she says finally, almost morose. ] I just-- I couldn't worry about it at the time.
[ It had been extremely disorienting, the whole experience. And keeping herself from reacting to everything that'd happened in between the time Catherine-1 had taken her scan, and when Catherine-2 had been activated... That took every iota of focus. ]
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Even now, they don't precisely boil over. She'd had her outburst, and seeing Simon castigating himself already, mirroring the loss she's experiencing, quells all the rest. ]
... It's not stupid, [ she says finally, almost morose. ] I just-- I couldn't worry about it at the time.
[ It had been extremely disorienting, the whole experience. And keeping herself from reacting to everything that'd happened in between the time Catherine-1 had taken her scan, and when Catherine-2 had been activated... That took every iota of focus. ]