Editing Taylor Hebert (section)

===Post-[[Gold Morning]]===
Against Taylor's wishes, [[Contessa]] appears to have spared her: the two bullets seemingly disabled Taylor so that Contessa could arrange a [[Corona_Pollentia#Power Removal|power removal]].<ref>Her hand touched her forehead, and she felt a pair of soft spots, each barely wider across than a dime.  She ran her hand over her short hair.  She didn’t know how it had happened, but she could guess.  Bullets to disable her, surgery to seal her power away.<br><br>Cauldron, apparently, did have a means of locking powers away.  Or maybe it was Contessa, doing the work, or perhaps she’d simply been kept alive, carted to Panacea or Bonesaw, who could fix things up.<br><br>But dwelling on those things wasn’t healthy, and it was pointless in the end.  She’d likely never get a serious answer.  She only had the two dimples or holes in her skull, the sole apparent casualty of some kind of brain surgery. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/interlude-end/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude: End]]</ref> Contessa then appears to have exiled the unpowered Taylor with her dad to a world sealed from the multiverse. Taylor now possesses an artificial right arm she is learning to get used to, and her long hair is cropped short. She also has two dime-sized dimple scars on her forehead (and presumably the back of her head as well) from the gunshots. She meets an alternate version of her mother there who is still alive, had married someone other than Danny and had two young sons. Taylor aims to pursue a normal life, but struggles to find peace now that she has it after all the decisions she's made and how nothing she'll ever do will ever come close in importance to what she did before. Taylor also questions why Contessa spared her when she asked for death, forcing her to come to terms with her regrets and causing her to doubt things could be going well for her and her dad. Taylor expressed the difficulty she was having in reconciling the past, and the doubts she was having for both the present and the future.<ref name=":1"/> 

Confiding in her mother about her identity and her troubles, they agree to meet again for more casual conversation. As Taylor leaves with her thoughts more clarified from her talk, she spots a boy that reminds her of Alec, but dismisses the similarities as minor if entirely absent. Meeting up with her dad, who has a new chance to be a parent to her in aiding her recovery in their new life, Taylor states that, although she has a lot of stuff bothering her, she's dealt with worse and could maybe deal with it and learn to be okay.<ref name=":1"/> 

After Gold Morning, speaking of or mentioning Taylor by any of her names was considered taboo by most parahumans. Her survival or demise was unknown to wider society: Taylor is gone.<ref>'''Point_Me_@_The_Sky:''' Now she’s gone and you’re still here.<br><br>FlippinMad: Gone?<br>FlippinMad: she retired?  Or she’s dead?  Gone gone?<br><br>'''Point_Me_@_The_Sky:''' She is *gone*. - [[Glow-worm P.9]]</ref><ref>'''ViVaVl29:''' Dropped ward a couple months ago. Just want to know do we ever definitively find out Taylor’s situation?<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' In Glow-Worm, it's stated outright that she's gone. - Conversation with by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://redd.it/f9k816 -->