Hope's recovery from combat trauma was not linear which shouldn't have surprised me except I kept expecting her to wake up one day and be okay again, and watching my three-and-a-half-year-old daughter have good days and bad days and terrible days was teaching me that healing didn't follow convenient timelines.
"I can feel them again." Her voice came small and broken three weeks after the battle. "The empty spaces. I was doing okay for like two hours and then I used dimensional awareness to check the scar stability and I just—I felt them. Where they died. And now I can't stop feeling it."
Can't stop feeling it. Right. Her primary ability was permanently contaminated with death awareness.
"Did the shielding techniques help at all?" Because the Covenant researchers had been working with her daily on selective awareness training.
