This is going so much... well. Better is a terrible word to describe anything that's happening here, but this whole situation could have gone so much worse than this.

Carolina didn't expect it. Her hopes only went as high as 'endure memory purgatory and not start an actual fight.'

"Yeah," is what she says. What is she going to do here, now? How do you follow this up? Carolina isn't wise, she's just tired.

"I'm serious when I say I don't think I'm better than any of the rest of you. I was trying to be, once, but..."