[ A distinct pause follows his question as if she's carefully considering it. Finally, she exhales slowly and her head drops a little. Not without a slight grimace from the pain in her neck though. ]

Not a clue. [ Wade is who she's most scared of coming clean to, admittedly. But after what she'd done to him, she... she was terrified. Desperate. It couldn't happen again because what if it wasn't him next time.

Normal people don't pop back up like daisies after getting their hearts eaten. ]

I'll probably wait until I heal a bit more. So they aren't as freaked out. [ ... ] Sorry about that, actually. I probably should've waited to tell you too.

[ Newt got the worst of it actually. He saw her right after she woke up and had to deal with her being a traumatized trainwreck of emotions. ]