[ she offers an understanding smile to yang, as reassurance that she shouldn't feel bad about asking. it's nice that she has a friend that cares enough to ask that sort of question, even if it's a little sad to think about. ]

General Ironwood might have some resources... I can see that he helped you, after all. [ her hand gestures to yang's arm - it's likely the same sort of atlesian technology in penny's own body, if not very similar. ] But I don't think he would be able to help by himself this time.

[ it wasn't that penny didn't trust the general, but he was the leader of the military that penny was technically part of. he had influence and power, but he didn't quite have the know-how to reverse what had happened to her at the festival.

her gaze looks a bit distant, almost nostalgic as she seems to be recalling a memory. ]

My father is the one that made me. If there is anyone out there that could rebuild me, it would be him.