CWC 02 - Intersection

I think that’s an excellent summary of the mare’s nest that is Alycia’s head. So I guess I did a good job there. :slight_smile:

She’s actually changed/adjusted remarkably well in a limited period of time. In a more “real” situation, she’d be decades in therapy, assuming she was allowed to walk the streets at all. She’s going to be twitchy about a lot of that stuff, probably for the rest of her life – but Summer (among others) has given her a useful set of avenues to go down, and shown her a way of life that she can embrace and become part of (or at least emulate to the point where it becomes a counter-habit to the last several years of conditioning).

For that, and to the extent that she’s aware of what Summer puts up with, she will always have Summer’s back.

(And, FWIW, I don’t think Alycia would ever actually vivisect Summer, but she might get lost in distracted exploration if she had to perform emergency repairs on her. But if Alycia ever did have to take her apart, she’d make sure Summer the Person was as safe as possible.)