It was difficult not to make another snappish comment back at that; Pepper was young and far less experienced than Valdis in most things, but she didn't like being spoken to like a child. But that wasn't the central issue at hand, so the teen set it aside.

Valdis must be talking about Meira, the woman Pepper had met about a year ago. "Well... I guess a good start would be accepting that she exists, and not just on, like, a cognitive level. She's not gone, she's just... buried. What does it feel like when you remember what happened with losing your memories last year?"