Hm? Oh. I meant that, you know, being a superhero usually means a lot of all-nighters. I got used to only sleeping a few hours some nights, but it's totally worth it.

[She hesitates for a moment. Give and take; Erskine was willing to talk to her about the hard stuff. Pepper could do the same, and it might make him feel less lonely, too, even if she's still troubled by what he's done.]

Sometimes, though... well, since coming here it's not always because I'm out flying. There was this vision, a little while after I got here. About the baby turtles dying. Kind of hard to forget. [She twines her fingers together in her lap, sighing.] And then sometimes it's because I miss my dad, too. Although lately I can't get the image of him dying out of my head. He's not actually dead, it was an illusion, but... it didn't seem like one the first time I saw it. It was part of a test.