[And he might not have intended this to happen, but her backbone comes out.]
If you think you can lecture me, at least look me in the eye when you do it.
[CALLED OUT -- but no, she's almost glaring. Her anger is mostly directed at herself, that's true. But now her hands stand clenched at her sides, she can feel the bruises of where the soldiers had stepped on her and the ache from when they'd pulled her hair. That was her act of strength and she knows that it wasn't much but--]
Don't presume to know me or my struggles...! Do you think I haven't tried? What kind of idiot do you take me for to know my own weakness and let it rule my life?!
[And she always does this - she always lets people know too much about what's on her mind but she refuses to be belittled immediately by someone who thinks she hasn't tried to fix herself.]
no subject
If you think you can lecture me, at least look me in the eye when you do it.
[CALLED OUT -- but no, she's almost glaring. Her anger is mostly directed at herself, that's true. But now her hands stand clenched at her sides, she can feel the bruises of where the soldiers had stepped on her and the ache from when they'd pulled her hair. That was her act of strength and she knows that it wasn't much but--]
Don't presume to know me or my struggles...! Do you think I haven't tried? What kind of idiot do you take me for to know my own weakness and let it rule my life?!
[And she always does this - she always lets people know too much about what's on her mind but she refuses to be belittled immediately by someone who thinks she hasn't tried to fix herself.]