Edge had said<span style="font-style: italic">the</span>word. The word she had promised she would never say to her mother.<span style="font-style: italic">Abandoned.</span><br/><br/>It had popped from it's iron vice in her mind and out of her mouth before she could stop it.<span style="font-style: italic">"Just admit it!"</span>she had screamed during one of her and her mother's fights, one that had escalated beyond any precedent.<span style="font-style: italic">"You left me with people you knew would hate me. You abandoned me!"</span>When the word had slipped out, both mother and daughter stopped, equally choked, shocked at the breech in an unspoken agreement.<br/><br/>It had been too much for Edge, and she had run from the bedroom she shared with her mother. Rage and pain heated her body, excelling her speed as her body's particles spread, so that she almost flew through the halls.<br/><br/>After going around in circles to nowhere, in an effort to avoid her mother, Edge found herself stalking a hallway lined with doorways to labs. She was back into her most solid form, condensing as her anger dissipated.<span style="font-style: italic">Can't you</span>ever<span style="font-style: italic">keep yourself together?</span>she thought maliciously to herself. What a stupid, stupid, sloppy, thing she had done. She sunk to the ground beside one of the metal doors, closing her eyes, and willing herself not to cry. The unstable walls of delusions and bare scraps of forgiveness that had existed between her and her mother, allowing them to scrape along somewhat civilly and painlessly, had collapsed. How would they pick up the pieces?<br/><br/>It was then that Colossa's muffled voice penetrated her thoughts. "Alright," she was saying, presumably from the room to which the door beside Edge led to "I want to see you in the mission tomorrow Eris, but you have got to prove yourself. Let's see what you can do."<br/><br/>Edge jumped to her feet. There was a mission? How long had she and her mother been fighting? How long had she been running? Without thinking, she flung the door to the lab wide and bolted in. She wanted to go, too.<br/><br/>She opened her mouth to shoot questions at Colossa and Eris, when she was hit by a fiery explosion of anti-matter.