"You assume correct. It is not a quick process, I'm sorry to tell you. Although maybe it will be easier in a place with less apocalypse events and work to do. I have not arranged things to have a lot of spare time before this, and I don't think I have made very much process on the who I really am question."

There has to be a way to sound not so hopeless about this, and still be honest. Yelena exhales, heavy. "But. What you want can be a little bit easier and like I said, figuring out what you don't want is a good start. Anything you do not want is an option off the list. Most of the rest you have to try, to know if you like it or not. I - well, we - fit as much of that as we could around freeing other widows, in those couple years between coming back to myself and the blip, but there is so much to try. What to wear, that is a fun one. You want softness but not touching people, you should start with that one. There are so many soft fabrics. None of it... oh, it is so strange to be giving a version of this talk to someone who is not a widow. None of it fully gets rid of the broken feeling. There have been short stretches I almost forgot for a little bit, though."

There's something simultaneously funny, sad, and almost sweet, about Ava asking for confirmation on that. "Not even a little. There is a new super person every five seconds, it has gotten so boring. Sorry. To me, that does not earn you any special points at all." Shrug.