Maybe she's never been where they've been and maybe she's never seen what they've seen, but between Chuck and Newt, she thinks she has a pretty good idea of what their world was like. And beyond that, she knows what it's like to grow up in a situation where you have to put up walls and keep things inside or else risk something. For the both of them, that risk came from their parents. She knows what without even having to ask him.

He learned it because that's what his parents taught him. And she learned it because she had to, because her mother wasn't always her mother and there was no other option when it came to staying sane. It makes her sort of want to kick his dad's ass. Or his mother's. She doesn't actually know which one might be responsible.

"Yeah, same," she says with a shrug. "I mean, in a different way, I know. I wasn't off having to learn how to save the world or whatever, but... yeah. Same. You have to learn how to be tough when your parents are fucking nuts."