Kayla could feel the struggling, but she wasn't going to let Brianna go and hurt herself. That'd be more irresponsibility and well, Brianna had suffered enough from her irresponsibility already.

Kayla didn't understand the words but she could guess that they were curse words.

"... yeah. Three weeks." For a moment, she just looked tiny and defeated. It was her fault.

She took a deep breath. "It was just a training exercise. Fake Sentinels. And I tried something stupid with my powers, and ... I'm sorry. This is all my fault. My responsibility."