[ Unreasonable loyalty is Root's lifeblood, and she absolutely understands what Charles is saying, down to her core. The absurd irrational lengths to which they'd go to keep someone. She'd gone after Shaw even when it had endangered the war they were fighting, and it had, a few times. Root had struggled with her decision not to constantly, actively search for her in the absence of leads, but when she had a lead she chased it down to its bitterest end.

That applies to her friends, too, if to a somewhat lesser extent. Root means it and know what she's committing to when she makes an offer to look out for someone, like she just had. But at the moment there's a whole host of her unresolved feelings about Shaw's situation welling up and pushing her heart into her throat, a visceral ache of emotion.

It was so recent for her and she'd had so little chance to process it before dying... and now dying again. ]

It was over seven thousand times, Charles. She's doing amazing being stuck here after that.

[ There's tears in her voice that she blinks back out of her eyes impatiently. Root doesn't want to give all of Shaw's very personal secrets away, not even to a good friend, but the part of this that's applicable to her and her actions she considers fair game. ]

She went through that because she came back to save me. I think I can go a few rounds to prove to her that I'm here, and not going away.

[ It doesn't begin to make things even, but that's not really the point. ]