[...wow what a long story. Teresa is her idol and her nemesis, the warrior she measures herself agains - someone she hated and cared for and, ultimately, killed. She bites on her bottom lip.]
Um. She was my immediate superior when I was with the Organization. She was Number One. Like you.
When I was training... the Organization would tell me that I was the one who would surpass her. The next Number One. And when I finished training, I became Number Two - which is how Irene became Number Three, you see? She was Number Two before me.
And then Teresa wiped out a group of humans and, instead of facing her execution, she disabled the warriors sent to take her head and became a fugitive. And so we were sent after her - Irene, and Noel and Sophia and I. Numbers two through five.
But we couldn't do it. Teresa was too strong, even for me. The last thing I remember before coming here was her standing over me, ready to take my head off. She didn't kill the others, but me--
--I guess she changed her mind, after, because I know what happened after that from Clare. She says that I pursued them, and killed Teresa, but--
Teresa is a lot of things.
She's the reason the me that you knew existed to begin with. The reason "I" awakened.
[She takes a little, shaky breath.]
The first time she was here, it was from... an earlier time. She wasn't yet a killer, and I tried to know her, a little. But she's hard to talk to. Hard to know.
But this Teresa... she remembers her death. So things are different, now.
It's an acquired skill!
Teresa is...
[...wow what a long story. Teresa is her idol and her nemesis, the warrior she measures herself agains - someone she hated and cared for and, ultimately, killed. She bites on her bottom lip.]
Um. She was my immediate superior when I was with the Organization. She was Number One. Like you.
When I was training... the Organization would tell me that I was the one who would surpass her. The next Number One. And when I finished training, I became Number Two - which is how Irene became Number Three, you see? She was Number Two before me.
And then Teresa wiped out a group of humans and, instead of facing her execution, she disabled the warriors sent to take her head and became a fugitive. And so we were sent after her - Irene, and Noel and Sophia and I. Numbers two through five.
But we couldn't do it. Teresa was too strong, even for me. The last thing I remember before coming here was her standing over me, ready to take my head off. She didn't kill the others, but me--
--I guess she changed her mind, after, because I know what happened after that from Clare. She says that I pursued them, and killed Teresa, but--
Teresa is a lot of things.
She's the reason the me that you knew existed to begin with. The reason "I" awakened.
[She takes a little, shaky breath.]
The first time she was here, it was from... an earlier time. She wasn't yet a killer, and I tried to know her, a little. But she's hard to talk to. Hard to know.
But this Teresa... she remembers her death. So things are different, now.