"Vought has this, like, idea of what Starlight stands for, and it doesn't entirely line up with...me," Annie admitted. And wasn't that a whole other punch to the gut? Like, just go ahead and appropriate her own image and explain it back to her, Vought. "Like, that speech I was supposed to give last night was real different from what I actually said."

And again, this was why she wasn't a hundred percent sure she wasn't going to be walking into the tower to get fired tomorrow.