[...And just like that, she's off-balance, broadcasting her weaknesses like the emotional child he was treating her as. Ugh. Sloppy. She recomposes herself, and her next sentence is a lot less cold and venomous and a lot more conversational and polite again.]
Anyway, it's not important as long as I'm in this place.
[There. Civil. Controlled. That was better. The last thing she needed, powerless and isolated as she was, was to alienate potentially useful people.
Especially potentially useful people who could also be a threat, which he clearly could.]
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[...And just like that, she's off-balance, broadcasting her weaknesses like the emotional child he was treating her as. Ugh. Sloppy. She recomposes herself, and her next sentence is a lot less cold and venomous and a lot more conversational and polite again.]
Anyway, it's not important as long as I'm in this place.
[There. Civil. Controlled. That was better. The last thing she needed, powerless and isolated as she was, was to alienate potentially useful people.
Especially potentially useful people who could also be a threat, which he clearly could.]