And Wanda will send thoughtful one-paragraph responses to all the emails, and ask Claire questions about her life and her interests and how she's doing. No regrets at all.
"I've found it's a little easier to make friends as an adult, when everyone has stopped trying to impress everyone else quite as much. People are a little more honest, and that helps. And when you're old like me you don't have to be nice to anyone who treats you badly. Even if they're older than you are."
Although now that she thinks of it, Wanda doesn't really have any friends that aren't teammates or Enclave members or other superheroes she teams up with pretty regularly. It's easy to wave that away as part of the difficulty of having a secret identity, but maybe she's still just not very good at making friends. Still, she has a few close ones, and that's what's really important to Wanda.
"Really, please do call at any time. Even if it's the middle of the night, I'm often up at odd hours. Girls in red need to look out for each other, right?"
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"I've found it's a little easier to make friends as an adult, when everyone has stopped trying to impress everyone else quite as much. People are a little more honest, and that helps. And when you're old like me you don't have to be nice to anyone who treats you badly. Even if they're older than you are."
Although now that she thinks of it, Wanda doesn't really have any friends that aren't teammates or Enclave members or other superheroes she teams up with pretty regularly. It's easy to wave that away as part of the difficulty of having a secret identity, but maybe she's still just not very good at making friends. Still, she has a few close ones, and that's what's really important to Wanda.
"Really, please do call at any time. Even if it's the middle of the night, I'm often up at odd hours. Girls in red need to look out for each other, right?"