"I would have, too." She had never gotten to know Eta and Iota the same way that he had Delta; that had only come later, with Epsilon, that balance in her own head. That ghost of her father telling her you're Agent Carolina, you don't need all that stuff.

That Tex got ahold of that data still rankles. Carolina likes to think if she'd known, she would have taken her side but - there's a lot of muddied feelings these days.

"I didn't exactly ingratiate myself later. Did you know Wash had to point a gun at me to get me to back down, because I did it first?"

It's blunt, tired. She should never have gone so far as to need Wash to stop her.