"No one else who'd want them," she says, trying and failing not to make that sound as full of self-loathing as it genuinely is.

"I'm not a great person, Hawke. I've hurt a lot of people. Done stupid shit. Kinda figured that was what was going to get me done in. People I'm close with- bad shit just happens. Even if I don't fuck it over myself, something else does." She can see the look on Doc's face when he held Alice for the first and only time. Seeing his heart break as she sent the only good thing she'd ever made far, far away from her.

"I'm like those fucked up frogs here. Touching me is poison."