humm . . . Well, you did something here that I don't know why more people don't do, which is see Mandy as a clean slate. We really know so little about her, that her past (other than her degrees, which we know to the n-th detail) and post S1 future could be anything.

The loyalty thing is funny though. We got used to WW loyalty being the uber loyalty to the group, to the family, which Mandy clearly didn't have--with the leaving and the coming back and the memo and wanting to work for the Republican congressman. And yet, here Mandy's loyalty is different. She's loyal to Donna and loyal to Josh. Not the group just them, or really her. You made a complicated character in a short story. Nice.