[ She's probably seen Rocket's workshop in passing during exploration - and after living with him for 5+ years you begin to recognize his space and work, even if you know better than to investigate it. The fact Rocket's comfortable here - in some way - is not something she can quite wrap her mind around, if only because she doesn't feel she could be. ]
[ ... Maybe it's just because of those differences. She doesn't have an answer and though there's some words she could say, they freeze as she does at the question. Tense like a strung wire and she hisses out: ]
I don't have any powers.
[ It's not in fact a lie in these it's not the truth - by Terran standards most aliens have super physiques. But she's not like Mantis or that one Ravager, she doesn't have outward powers. She's not in fact telling a lie that it comes out that way, but from the too quick, heated way in which she answers there is in fact clearly something wrong. ]
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[ She's probably seen Rocket's workshop in passing during exploration - and after living with him for 5+ years you begin to recognize his space and work, even if you know better than to investigate it. The fact Rocket's comfortable here - in some way - is not something she can quite wrap her mind around, if only because she doesn't feel she could be. ]
[ ... Maybe it's just because of those differences. She doesn't have an answer and though there's some words she could say, they freeze as she does at the question. Tense like a strung wire and she hisses out: ]
I don't have any powers.
[ It's not in fact a lie in these it's not the truth - by Terran standards most aliens have super physiques. But she's not like Mantis or that one Ravager, she doesn't have outward powers. She's not in fact telling a lie that it comes out that way, but from the too quick, heated way in which she answers there is in fact clearly something wrong. ]