[ For a moment, she braces herself for rejection. The way he looks away from her, some part of her can't help but assume it's because she's put too much on him. This is why she keeps things to herself — other people can't handle her massive ton of baggage, and it never stops hurting when she's reminded of that and the lifetime of scars from people abandoning her that she'll never fully heal from.

But then he goes and says that and she can't believe what she's hearing. She can count the number of people who understood her connection to her powers and need to help people with them on hand one, and that doesn't include Coulson, not the one that's here. In less than ten minutes, this random guy from another universe has proven that he understands this fundamental piece of her and she... doesn't know what to do with that. In fact, she's thrown so fully off-guard that she actually answers his question with the honesty he requests of her. ]

I've been worse. A few hairline fractures, some bruising — I was healing before but I can feel it every time it— [ She gestures in the air. ] Pretty sure my weeks of trying to be careful are being undone by all this.