Tramell Tillman as Mr Milchick and Sarah Bock as Miss Huang in ‘Severance’ season 2. Photo:

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Warning: This post contains spoilers for season 2 of Severance.

Miss Huang didn’t exactly get a happy ending in Severance season 2, and star Sarah Bock has a lot of feelings about it.

The 18-year-old actress, who is currently in her first year at Northwestern University, made her final appearance as the mysterious (and young!) Lumon deputy manager in episode 9 of season 2, and tells PEOPLE that Miss Huang’s fate surprised her.

“I think what ends up ultimately happening to her… Well, first of all, she gets shipped off, which came as a surprise to me, actually. There were a couple of different ways that her storyline could have gone, but I think that’s a really heartbreaking one,” Bock says.

In episode 9, Mr. Milchik (Tramell Tillman) informs Miss Huang that, rather than finish out the quarter on the severed floor as she was planning to, she is to depart at the end of the day for a new posting in Svalbard and leave her parents and house behind. That turn of events, and her “apologizing to Dylan” (Zach Cherry), lets the audience “finally see a bit of empathy in her,” Bock says.

“When she’s finding out that she’s going to be separated from her home and her family, and she’s going to be all alone in Svalbard, I think you get to finally see her as truly a kid who is another victim in this human corporate system.”

Sarah Bock as Miss Huang in ‘Severance’ season 2. Apple TV+

The move gave Bock “an opportunity to dive into her more emotional side and humanize her a little bit more,” she says. “I was happy with the things it did for her character, for sure … Because I think up until that episode, you still don’t see much of what she’s feeling on the inside, which was fun [to explore].”

If this is the end for Miss Huang, though, and Bock says it “could be her goodbye,” she’s “definitely sad” to go. “I love working with Tramell [and everyone] on the show.”

Of the season’s ending overall (the season 2 finale is now streaming on Apple TV+), she says, “There were certain parts of the last few episodes that I had no clue were going to happen, and my jaw was on the floor.”

Sarah Bock as Miss Huang, Adam Scott as Mark S. in ‘Severance’ season 2. Apple TV+

Bock previously told PEOPLE that she “didn’t even fathom that I could have a chance” at securing the role as Miss Huang — particularly since she thought her Zoom audition “went terribly.”

“Ben [Stiller] is such a chill and grounded and calm person. I don’t know why, but I took that as like, ‘Oh, he doesn’t like my audition.’ But in reality, he’s just a very grounded guy. And it was great.”

Once she got on set, though, those nerves returned — particularly as she had to “really stare down” her costars Adam Scott, Britt Lower, John Turturro and Cherry in some of the first scenes she filmed.

“That was kind of tough for me because they’re my icons. I remember at one point in the scene with the ball game where I have to stare at Adam for a really long time, intensely, I physically started shaking at one point. I was like, ‘I can’t believe I’m doing this,'” she recalled. “But by the end of filming, it became second nature and I was just side-eyeing people left and right.”

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The season 2 finale of Severance is now streaming on Apple TV+.