Do you understand? Was she ever going to have that moment stop playing in her head? Somehow she didn't think so, not for a very, very long time.

"Better make mine a double," Felicity commented under her breath. "Or not. I've been drinking way too much since we came back to this place." She inhaled, exhaled, and conveniently forgot Thea's stated desire to not be Thea Queen for a while. Her relationship with Oliver had been rocky at times, but it was one she'd admired. Probably because of her own lack of siblings.

"He's fine. Better than he was the first time, scars healing and not as hermit prone. That's progress anyway."