The delay in her response, that deep breath, isn't entirely lost on CT, but she's got enough tact to not ask or point it out. There's just the slightest raise of a brow, before her expression settles again.
If she knew what Carolina was thinking, CT might have said something—because it wasn't a mistake. Because Carolina is the CO she respects the most, out of all of those she's served under in her time in the military. Because for all her faults, for all the way things went wrong, CT means what she said: she's not angry anymore, and she doesn't blame Carolina anymore than she blames herself.
Carolina's changed. Carolina's apologised. That alone says a lot, in CT's book, and if CT wasn't willing to move on from the past, she wouldn't be sitting here talking to Carolina at all.
But she doesn't know, so all she says is, "The things that made us good at what we did were the same things that made us royal pains in the asses when we wanted to be."
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The delay in her response, that deep breath, isn't entirely lost on CT, but she's got enough tact to not ask or point it out. There's just the slightest raise of a brow, before her expression settles again.
If she knew what Carolina was thinking, CT might have said something—because it wasn't a mistake. Because Carolina is the CO she respects the most, out of all of those she's served under in her time in the military. Because for all her faults, for all the way things went wrong, CT means what she said: she's not angry anymore, and she doesn't blame Carolina anymore than she blames herself.
Carolina's changed. Carolina's apologised. That alone says a lot, in CT's book, and if CT wasn't willing to move on from the past, she wouldn't be sitting here talking to Carolina at all.
But she doesn't know, so all she says is, "The things that made us good at what we did were the same things that made us royal pains in the asses when we wanted to be."