Alexei had mentioned that, hadn't he. Though she hadn't realized it had been so soon after, in this unfortunate timeline of lost childhood. "No loyalty indeed," she echoes. "My government would probably just as soon lock me away too, if they could get ahold of me again." But she managed to stay out of their radar. Even if she wasn't foolish enough to believe they had forgotten about her, she was probably never too much of their priority.

"Never realized any Widows had a chance to get older." Because as soon as you're no longer useful... She frowns. She can't imagine what it's like to put children that looked up to you as a parent through the same horrors. Yet she also knows through her own horrible life, stuck playing out the same sad patterns, all you know is all you really can know.

"Good. That's how people like that deserve to end up. I hate this idea that... somehow we're all meant to be above revenge. That people like that can destroy so many lives, order the deaths of so many more... and yet wanting them dead where they belong makes us the villains." A bitter edge to it.