Samus carefully set the axe back on the rack. As soon as her hands left the handle, the blades disappeared. Samus let out a small breath as Astrid spoke. Samus only heard her own teenage self speaking.She was so eager for a fight like she had something to prove, just like the young hunter...

She turned back to Astrid. "We wouldn't have made it out alive if they hadn't left," she responded plainly. It was so hard for her to admit failure, but that was the reality. "They were much more difficult than we anticipated. We were spared, but for what reason, I don't know."

And as much as Samus only heard herself in Astrid, she heard her voice of reason, her former CO, in herself...