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[ She's been written off enough — by adults, by other juvenile delinquents, by the guard back at home; considered expendable by the authorities of the Ark — that really anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to her, and going so far as to bring themselves down to her level, makes her markedly less standoffish. She still flinches, of course, but only a little, and doesn't stumble back into the lockers. ]

I don't want to hold onto it. [ So far as she's concerned, if she ever needs it again, she's going to deserve what's coming her way. Again. ] You take it.