because that post is getting fucking long. here's the links (this post will be edited to add each new post to it)
The worst wounds are the ones that can't just be fixed. She has dealt with gashes reaching to her cores, layers of armor fully stripped- those can be mended with no effort on her part. But this pain... she feels it deep inside her FTL drive, a not-quite-itch that refuses to go away- that is what is too much for her. She is nowhere one of her bases, or bases she can trust... all she can do is let it happen. Lucky it isn't effecting anything beyond her drive's efficiency, then.
