Editing Victoria Dallon (section)

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
Victoria falls ill after the fight for several days. [[Dinah Alcott]] appears at the Wardens headquarters and attempts to convince the heroes that [[Contessa]] is dangerous and needs to be dealt with. Also, she alerts Breakthrough about [[Damsel of Distress III]] attacking evacuees of [[The City]] with her team "[[Deathchester]]". Before moving out to stop her, the others point out to Victoria, that the unusual behaviour of her forcefield played a major role in Teacher surrendering and not executing his plan. Victoria realizes, that she had not been in control of the Wretch during those moments. She does not tell them about it.<ref>“The guns,” Sveta said.  “You picked up six guns, using your forcefield.”<br/><br/>I looked through the portal at the distorted picture beyond it.  I thought of the rising anger, the frustration at Byron’s condition and not fucking knowing.  Then the black mood that had settled in, as Kenzie had reported that Swansong was dead.<br/><br/>In the midst of that mood, the Wretch hadn’t moved how I’d wanted it to.<br/><br/>I’d moved like it wanted. 
- [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/20/from-within-16-3/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.3]]</ref>

A similar event occurs during the fight against Deathchester, after [[Mockument]] agitates her. This time around, Victoria is a lot more conscious of the improved coordination.<ref name="II16.4 eWretchMirror">“Holy,” Sidepiece said, as I disengaged from her other self’s remains.  I reached for the Sidepiece caricature’s lower rib, then hurled it at Gibbet, finishing the action before I fully realized I wasn’t grabbing it with ''my'' hand.<br><br>It hadn’t been ''my'' idea, I was pretty sure.<br>[...]<br>But I was pissed, hurt, sad, sick, and a little door had opened before, back in Teacher’s headquarters.  Once opened, it didn’t close quite the right way again.<br><br>Hands gripped the side mirror, and I twisted as the Wretch did the same.  The mirror was flung so fast I had trouble tracking it with my eyes.  It hit Trophy Wife, ''hard'', and flew off with enough speed still driving it that it shattered a car window, striking ragged side first.<br><br>Trophy Wife was tough, and we’d hit her where the trophy rack was attached to her back.  But that was a hit that would have been bone-breaking without the armor, if not purely lethal. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/08/24/from-within-16-4/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.4]]</ref> Breakthrough and the [[Huntsmen]] manage to convince Damsel III to stop the pillaging with a ceasefire. She and her team then confront Deathchester at their hideout, together with [[Etna]]. Victoria offers Damsel III assistance with establishing Deathchester as a villain team, in exchange for the stolen goods, information about [[Ashley Stillons II|Swansong]]'s memory-bleed-through and an extension of the ceasefire.<ref>[[From Within 16.5]]</ref> She then visits [[The Undersiders]] together with [[Kenzie Martin|Kenzie]] and [[Natalie Matteson|Natalie]], to grab Kenzie's remaining tech. [[The Heartbroken]] lash out towards Kenzie, but the situation quickly de-escalates. [[Tattletale]] and Kenzie's friends join them on the nightly tinkering adventure.<ref>[[From Within 16.6]]</ref>

The meeting with Deathchester takes place at the old headquarters of Breakthrough. Together with everyone else present, Victoria witnesses what happens inside of the dream room of [[Rain's Cluster]].<ref>[[From Within 16.7]]</ref> Worried over the life of her teammate, she and her team enter the dream room via [[Kenzie Martin|Kenzie]]'s tech. Just as they arrive in the dream, [[Cradle]]'s [[Shard]] attacks. Also, Victoria now has one of the 15 sections of the dream room, but there are no walls that could stop the Shard.<ref>And then, as though a light switch had been flicked, the scene was gone, and we were in the room, divided into fifteen sections, each haphazardly connected to the last.<br/><br/>I had my costume and my buckler, but not my flight.  I hurried over in Sveta’s direction, crawling at first, then staggering, and crossed the boundary. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/07/from-within-16-8/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.8]]</ref> She suffers a severe burn while fighting it and as the fight seems lost, she orders for her team to go after [[Cradle]].<ref>[[From Within 16.9]]</ref> After dispatching Cradle and Grasping Self, they leave the dream room and enter greater [[Shardspace]].

[[Damsel of Distress III|Damsel]] shows the dream team how to do a full dream-body recovery.<ref>[[From Within 16.10]]</ref> Victoria traverses Shardspace, sees visions of memories inside of Shardspace-crystals and finds out about [[Gallant]]'s secret of him being a [[Cauldron Vial]]-cape.<ref>
“You couldn’t confide in me?  You couldn’t say ‘hey, I bought my powers’?” I asked.  “You had to lie about triggering, and dealing with that?  Did it even happen?” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/17/from-within-16-11/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.11]]</ref>

She moves on ahead and finds a group of [[Shard]]s working together with fifty of [[Teacher]]'s thralls, messing with one of the dimensional fissures.<ref>And fifty of Teacher’s goons, dressed in white, carting in technology, working to build something connected to this tear.  Working with the agents. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/09/17/from-within-16-11/ Excerpt] from [[From Within 16.11]]</ref> [[Tattletale]] convinces the team to move towards her part of [[the Shardspace]], against Victoria's concerns. They run into Tattletale's Shard, The Negotiator, who alerts one of Teacher's Shards. Victoria uses the opportunity to question the Negotiator Shard's memory, stumbling on several harsh guesses about her family and friends until Tattletale steps in. Teacher's pet-Shard chases after Victoria and she successfully calls her own Shard for help. It follows a brawl with Damsel and Victoria against Teacher, his thralls and his Shard, where Victoria destroys Teacher's control network before waking up.

Victoria and her team face an angry [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]].<ref>[[From Within 16.12]]</ref> She is still shaken from the event. [[The Wardens]] have great concerns regarding Victoria's increasing sync with her [[Shard]]. Strangely, [[Dragon]]'s lie detector triggers when Victoria says her own name, but not when she says that she wants to save [[The City]]. Her team gets split up, out of action until further notice and not allowed to use powers. She visits [[brandish|her mother]] and confronts her about her parentage. While [[Laserdream]] and Carol argue, Victoria moves outside, breaks off the fingernail of the hand that [[Panacea|Amy]] healed and uses her power, noticing that she has control over it again.<ref>[[Sundown 17.1]]</ref>

Visits the Wardens headquarters on the next morning with her mother and cousin to see [[Valkyrie]], who sent for them so that they can meet [[Lady Photon]]. Victoria convinces Valkyrie to share information about [[the Shardspace]]. Together with [[Vista]], she meets [[Clockblocker]] and [[Kid Win]] on the garden balcony of the compound, both of whom are part of [[the Flock]].<ref>[[Sundown 17.2]]</ref> They deliver a message from Valkyrie to Victoria, the same advice that Glaistig Uaine had given to [[Khepri]].<ref>“I’m supposed to tell you that you need anchors,” Clockblocker said.  “You need things to hold onto.  Things from your past.  Your family.  Yourself.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/08/sundown-17-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.3]]</ref> Victoria reveals her intention to bring all the heroes closer to their Shards as well, similar to herself.<ref>“I want to open lines of communication,” I said.  “I kind of did, last night.  I called for help, and the Wr- my agent answered.”<br/><br/>
“And you said you have more control,” Kid Win said.<br/><br/>
“I want that for ''everyone'',” I said.  “Everyone on our side.  Can you tell me anything that would help?  Ways to close the communication gap, so we can reach out?” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/08/sundown-17-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.3]]</ref> [[Narwhal]] then calls for Victoria, because [[Amy]] has become the new main threat. Victoria however has the suspicion that Amy isn't the real problem.<ref>''What are you doing, Amy?''<br/><br/>''And why the hell does it feel, deep in my gut, like this isn’t the thing we should all be worried about?  Are we overlooking something or someone in that long row of green and lime-green lights?'' - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/08/sundown-17-3/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.3]]</ref>

Attends the meeting with Narwhal. [[Jessica Yamada]] and [[Wayne Darnall]] confirm that Victoria has not been mentally altered by Amy. Victoria gets briefed on the emergency situation. Amy wants her as negotiator.<ref>[[Sundown 17.4]]</ref> Victoria snaps during the negotations and begins to threaten Amy. Amy gives in to Victoria's demands, but too late, since [[Dauntless|The Titan]] already went on the offensive against one of Amy's creations. Also, Victoria tells Jessica that she knows about the event regarding [[Bonesaw]].<ref>[[Sundown 17.5]]</ref> Victoria watches how [[Chevalier]] stops The Titan. [[Cinereal]] assigns someone to get more info out of Victoria. Victoria's forcefield acts on its own again.<ref>I brushed his hand aside before it could make contact.  My arm and hand hadn’t moved in the course of the brushing aside.  I’d meant to do it and I hadn’t.<br/><br/>It had been a brief, natural expansion of my forcefield, a brief, natural movement of an arm that had no meat beneath the skin, no bone beneath the meat, and no and no rejiggered rat or feline DNA in blood, bone, meat, or skin.  Above all, it had been a gentle touch. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/19/sundown-17-6/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.6]]</ref> Later, Jessica explains what happened to her and why she chose Victoria to look after her therapy group. [[The Wardens]] conclude that Victoria is to remain benched, where as the rest of [[Breakthrough]] is active again. Out of loneliness and prior interest, she visits [[Anelace]] and sleeps with him.<ref>[[Sundown 17.6]]</ref>

Later, Victoria begins to talk direct to her [[Shard]], even letting it braid her hair.<ref>
''Still there?''  I asked the void, my arms flat at my side, my hair still in the process of being braided.  ''Good.'' [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/22/sundown-17-7/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.7]]</ref> She returns to the Wardens and gets access to a computer to check on [[Breakthrough|her team]], which is investigating her sister. [[Kenzie]] secretly contacts Victoria and establishes a connection to [[Tattletale]].<ref>[[Sundown 17.7]]</ref> Victoria has a suspicion about some of [[Amy]]'s capes, expecting a skirmish against the Wardens' investigation team. Together with Tatteltale, she manages to stop the fight by convincing Amy of her instability. Vicky assumes that her recent precognitive suspicions were given to her by her Shard.<ref>[[Sundown 17.8]]</ref> While she takes a break, the Wardens call her and put her through to her [[Flashbang|dad]]. They argue over how to deal with Amy. After that, she calls Tattletale and they talk about potential threats.<ref>[[Sundown 17.9]]</ref> She figures out that anti-parahumans are secretly the real threat.<ref>[[Sundown 17.10]]</ref>