you blame me for doubting you but you doubted me every step of the way too. if we're going to keep blaming each other instead of baghra then i can blame you for never believing in me. it's not fair. you want understanding for your mistakes but you refuse to understand mine.
[ swallowing her anger to pretend she feels any regret at running feels like choking on burning bile, unpleasant and acidic — but she manages, despite the nausea it brings. he doesn't need to know that she would make the same choice to escape, again and again, in the name of her freedom. that she knows how right she had been, to flee from him and his plotting.
instead, she continues, scrambling for what might disarm and soften his own bitter, distrusting resentment toward her. ]
can't you at least try to understand? is it so difficult for you to imagine how confused and terrified she made me? this life and this power is still so new to me. i was scared. people don't make calm decisions when they're scared.
aleksander. i deserved to know who you really were before we nearly fell into bed together. i think you can at least agree with that much.
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if we're going to keep blaming each other instead of baghra then i can blame you for never believing in me.
it's not fair. you want understanding for your mistakes but you refuse to understand mine.
[ swallowing her anger to pretend she feels any regret at running feels like choking on burning bile, unpleasant and acidic — but she manages, despite the nausea it brings. he doesn't need to know that she would make the same choice to escape, again and again, in the name of her freedom. that she knows how right she had been, to flee from him and his plotting.
instead, she continues, scrambling for what might disarm and soften his own bitter, distrusting resentment toward her. ]
can't you at least try to understand? is it so difficult for you to imagine how confused and terrified she made me?
this life and this power is still so new to me. i was scared. people don't make calm decisions when they're scared.
aleksander.
i deserved to know who you really were before we nearly fell into bed together.
i think you can at least agree with that much.