She looked away for a moment.
When she spoke her voice was even, emotionless and detached.
"Yes, I do. I know what it's like to do something bad and you can't stop doing it. By your own actions or by someone else's actions."
She took a deep breath. She never told anyone outside the life what she was about to tell him.
"I formed this team to give those of us with not so shiny and spotless pasts a second chance," she started.
"When I was fifteen I met this older guy. He was smooth, charming, handsome, and knew exactly what to say and how to act to get me interested. Right after my sixteenth birthday he drugged me and kidnapped me. He had a clone made and decapitated it, sending the head to my parents to make them think I was dead."
"I was taken by man named the Mandarin. Had a big thing in for my father. I was brainwashed and turned into Lady Mandarin. I was turned into his weapon, his instrument of trying to take control of a world wide underground empire."
"As the Lady Mandarin I killed countless in his name. They were people who opposed him. While they weren't innocent themselves, I just cut them down as if they were blades of grass."
"So I understand about having something in your past that you don't want others to know about. I know what it feels like to carry around the guilt of your actions."
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