"Not extreme," she replies, watching her tea steep instead of tasting it outright. "I only mean...that watching and waiting better also be weighted by...mm...how to say..." She picks up the cup, turning away from the stove and looking askance thoughtfully.

"I suppose my thought is...the more one is influenced by the revelations of the past, the more I worry those are the tones with which one will most eagerly try to paint with, rather than what's being presented here in the moment." She's seen it with Flynn. With Darin.

With herself.

"Forewarned is forearmed and all, yes. But..." She tsks, shaking her head. "I don't have the right turn of phrase for it. The way I'm thinking. Hmh."