bailey what if everything was just an elaborate ploy from your whumper to get back at you. the heroes were all contracted. none of it is real
(rate this fear :)) )
Bailey shakes their head almost before you finish speaking.
"No." Their smile is bitter-bright. "Any other team, I might believe that, but not this one. Not here. Not... not Icarus."
That's why they'd come to these heroes in particular, after all. Would it have been less risky to go to another team? Absolutely. Picking the team of heroes that not only included the hero they'd most often fought, but the one they had hospitalized, felt much like handing them a scalpel and drawing a line to show them where exactly to cut. But this, this question, hit right on the reason they'd chosen to come to these heroes.
Bailey can't trust their own judgment. They have done so much wrong, things they can't even begin to make amends for. Who better to trust than the people who fought the hardest against them?
(And anyway. Icarus is owed his pound of flesh.)
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5/10. Scary but manageable.
