[ thankfully wash is a pretty good listener, paying close enough attention to parse what she's saying, more or less, even though incredible sentences like turned shit into this thing called Stuff. bombs that something into something else that apparently gave people powers sounds like comic book radiation, and so he'll just. choose to understand it that way.

when she mentions the shock collar, when she mentions being implanted with it, there's a moment when he noticeably tenses -- it's only self control that prevents him from completely cringing. god, he hates the thought of that. so so much. the scarring on the back of his neck is old but still feels fresh, sometimes. ]

Hope you gave them all the hell they sound like they deserved. [ good job on kicking their asses, south, wash approves. maybe even like, burn their corpses and blow them up a few times or . . . okay maybe not. ] Glad you got out of it, at least.

Powers, though? [ another raise of an eyebrow. ] Like what? Bombs, radiation, become Superman?