Death Looms

In Olivia's line of work, death was around every corner. It was something she lived beside often and had grown to accept.

At first, it wasn't easy to adopt such callousness. It went against human nature to live alongside death and not fear it. Yet she had to become cold or she would crumble and become a failed agent. It was never certain where people like that went. They had seen too much for civilian life but were no longer usable to the SIA.

She knew she had to keep her feelings to herself.

In the situation with Q, it was the first time she was hit hard with the reality of never seeing someone again. The impermanence of life scared her for a while, but she had to train those thoughts out of herself and remind herself that the life she worked so hard to achieve would be ripped from her grasp if she was afraid of death just like the others.

She would never be a failed agent.

Despite thinking Executive Whitmore was an incompetent human being with the privilege given to him by comin