
Rory blinked. "No, Jude. I'm never going to stop being a hero. A hero is what I do, no matter what job I take, where I go, or how I live my life. I'm always going to help people and love them, I don't need my powers to do that. I just want to get away from them for a bit, because sometimes I don't feel like fighting."
She reclined in the chair until its front legs stood in the air and Rory closed her eyes to find the words. When it had come to talking about her own thought process, she'd never been very good at it.
"See, I want to prove you can stand up from anything. I never do anything for one reason, and I'd be hardpressed to think of someone who did. Some of those reasons are conflicting, but not if you don't simplify them.
"It never bothered me when I thought about it before. I never hated my powers, but I know I'm limited by them anyway. When you reach a certain level of strength, people start to assume and sometimes the only way to get out of a box is to utterly break it. I want to make sure I don't end up relying on the abilities, but I also want to prove to the world that you don't
need that raw power to keep standing back up and to fight the impossible and no one is willing to believe me when I said I did it before when I was just some bitch who could talk to rodents."