[Anna fixes him with as much of a stare as she can give. it really, really is hard to reconcile that he's an Oracle with the part where she's missing an eye now. it would be really, really easy to turn all of this around and shut him out and become a massively bitter bitch for something that he says he didn't see coming. (ha.) but if she turns him away now, she'll just have to live like this instead, without getting any closer to Vanderweele herself. she'll stagnate. she knows herself.]

[and besides. she believes him.]

God knows it took me two or three months to remember how to use a sword, and that's more or less the only skill A2 had. [there's no smile, but her posture shifts, releasing some tension in her shoulders she hadn't realized she was holding just because it was her constant state of being.] We're good. And I'm looking forward to doing this whole thing again.