A sound resembling a dry sob escapes Lydia when the other woman freezes as if trying to figure out why she knows her. Those bastards really managed to reprogram her friend. Lydia fought it until she pretended she wasn't fighting anymore just to get out of the multiple days of orientation, but she never really believed it. She still doesn't. This only confirms her belief.

Lydia gets to her feet and throws her arms around Allison, burying her face against the other girl's shoulder and clinging to her like she's terrified that if she lets go, Allison will be gone all over again. "We can't talk about it here," she whispers urgently in Allison's ear. "On your PDC. We'll talk there. Ray showed me how to encrypt a private message, it's okay, Allison. It's gonna be okay, you're okay," she goes on, not even realizing that she's crying and laughing all at once by the time she finishes saying. She'll send Allison a message on the network, encrypted especially to her and they can talk in more detail.

She pulls back a little bit, just a little bit, so that she can look Allison in the face and her painfully wide smile looks out of place among the tears rolling down her cheeks as she huffs out another sound stuck between a laugh and a sob. "I thought I'd never see you again, oh my God, I missed you so much!"