[Pharah goes quiet and still. It's better to get this all out of the way, first and foremost, than to have it hanging over them as they're stuck here for however long it takes, but that doesn't mean it's going to be in any way easy. There's a lot of built up tension, between Ana being alive and not telling her - which she cannot ignore any longer - and the arguments they'd had regarding Overwatch leading up to Pharah leaving to join the military. She takes in a breath and lets it out in a controlled sigh, prioritizing her thoughts. Her first question is soft, but firm; touched with hurt and a sting of betrayal,]
Why didn't you tell me? [She loved her mother, she always would, nothing would ever change that, but the idea that she was around, for years, after her assumed death, and just left Pharah to deal with the repercussions? The following loss when Jack died and Overwatch fell, being unable at that point to salvage anything. She'd stopped trusting people, stopped letting them in, devoted herself with a diamond focus on what was directly in front of her because everything else hurt. It had taken heavy losses against Anubis to shake her back into form where she could be a person again and admit her own humanity, to open that vulnerability to others. Her throat tightens as she tries to maintain her composure.] I buried you, do you realize how hard that was for me?
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Why didn't you tell me? [She loved her mother, she always would, nothing would ever change that, but the idea that she was around, for years, after her assumed death, and just left Pharah to deal with the repercussions? The following loss when Jack died and Overwatch fell, being unable at that point to salvage anything. She'd stopped trusting people, stopped letting them in, devoted herself with a diamond focus on what was directly in front of her because everything else hurt. It had taken heavy losses against Anubis to shake her back into form where she could be a person again and admit her own humanity, to open that vulnerability to others. Her throat tightens as she tries to maintain her composure.] I buried you, do you realize how hard that was for me?