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In the days after she met young Nora Darhk, Zari found herself drifting into a closed-in space inside of herself, waking already on edge with little sense of having gotten real rest and with heavy darkness pushing her down into cramped spaces. Sometimes, she turned a corner in a corridor on the ship only to find her heart suddenly pounding, her head dizzy, her feet unsteady on the metal floor.
Maybe it was seeing the inside of a mental institution only a decade or so removed from her own time spent in a similar place. Maybe it was the despair in Nora Darhk's eyes, or the knowledge that the girl had spent two more decades institutionalized and preyed upon by a monster before they met her and she tried to kill them. Maybe it was even the moment Zari had been about to be skewered with glass shards by the demon inside the girl, though that moment had been over before Zari had been able to begin to feel anything but numb disbelief.
But now, now she felt the panic, but not at that, so much. As though being wheeled around that asylum had unlocked something in her, Zari was feeling terrors she'd shut away for years.
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- Part 3 of Season Three Missing Scenes