She has the good sense to look sheepish. Her hands wrap around the mug again, tighter this time. Better to think about the warmth instead of her foot halfway down her throat. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I know better that," she confesses, ducking her head a moment. As a doctor, she really does.

But try him, hmm. What would sound the most outlandish, the most over the top? "I've been mind-controlled by a telepathic gorilla who has, or had, a soft spot for me because I took care of him before he got powers. Or... my former boss turned out to be a superpowered sociopath from the future who traveled back in time to kill a boy who would end up becoming one of my best friends. He failed in that mission, ended up stuck, took the literal identity of a scientist who was destined to become famous, and, a little over a decade later, sabotaged the particle accelerator we built so it would explode the night we first turned it on so he could manipulate that same boy-now-man to develop super speed and work to steal it so he could go home."

Thawne is a trippy rabbit hole that she'd like to avoid ever thinking about again. But his story sounds like something out of a pulpy sci-fi novel.