Yeah, I'd say you did too, kid. I started throwing myself right back into the fray when I lost my eye—like, I think I took maybe two weeks to let myself try to recover? Before I started jumping right into the bullshit again.

[that's not exactly how it happened, no, but she doesn't have the clearest time memory from that period of her life. she just remembers it was less time than she needed.]

I'm just hoping I don't turn into an Intoner again this year. I think NP actually had to talk me down from that one, but that was rough. [as she thinks about it, she wonders how many rampages she's actually gone on this year, and she doesn't like that it's more than one.] How about this. Let's make a pact to just fuckin' be calm no matter what happens in January. We need the break, and we might as well go into the new year with the same energy we hope to get out of it.

[she extends her hand as though the handshake will bind things.]