"Might have been if I wasn't so fucking good at it," she says, her smile listed lopsided. "I wanted to join the cohort, be a soldier. A hero." She shrugs. "I ran away to join up like... Eighty times by the time I turned eighteen. Tried to, anyway."
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"Might have been if I wasn't so fucking good at it," she says, her smile listed lopsided. "I wanted to join the cohort, be a soldier. A hero." She shrugs. "I ran away to join up like... Eighty times by the time I turned eighteen. Tried to, anyway."