[Pepper isn't sure what causes that tension in Erskine, but it must have something to do with whoever this girl is.]

I've done some world-saving myself, you know. More day-saving than world-saving, but I don't fly around in power armor just because it's fun. Only partly because it's fun.

[She shrugs and then sighs softly.]

I'm not really looking forward to going back, actually. As soon as I do, a giant alien ship is going to explode over Manhattan, and a lot of people are going to die. I know most of my friends survive, and my dad does, too, but it's not gonna be fun. Not for a while. At least we'll be together, which is good. I just... I don't want to forget, but I'm also not sure I want to remember. I'm not sure which'll hurt worse.