[...From the sounds of it, he didn't escape entirely unscathed. She'll keep that little detail to herself. She gets it, on some level--a screwed up one, but...]

...Yeah. Real familiar. [She's gonna run out of tea at this point, from all of the sipping she's been doing. Her gaze goes back to the secrets] It explains a lot, though. Not having time to consider whether your actions are right, and just...having to do them.

I...won't say that I know the sort of situation as well as you've known it, or that I know the severity of it. Fifteen years is a long time to be used to being a person who destroys and having to take orders you don't like. [...] I'll just...offer a non-judgmental ear, if you ever want it.