...I don't think it is. [Her voice is quiet. Soft.]

Someone did that to me, too. Reached into my mind and twisted it around. Made me something I never - [She shakes her head.]

But I broke free. I fought them, and I won. If I'd just died - then my friends might have, too. Mastermind would be free to manipulate whoever he liked. [Her lips curl around the words.

You made me trust you. Perhaps even love you.]

Dying is easy, C'rizz. But life - hope - is always worth it.

[She remembers telling Scott the opposite, and she realises - fully, truly - that she doesn't believe it any more.]