I don't want to, either. But now everyone here... [ she trails off, and rubs hands over her face before resting them over her eyes. ] You'd think they know what it's like.
[ their sorry's are stroking their own wounded egos and prides. it's emotional masturbation. ]
[ Minatsuki is trying to remind herself to play nice. ]
I've run out of ways to say I don't need their sympathy. If I'm nice they just think they're right and try to coddle me, they assume I've just got walls up. But they're wrong.
[ Because she reminds Morgana in some aspects of herself - ladylike and sweet but then so angry inside she knows indeed they are right, but she humors her anyway. ]
Did she survive?
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No.
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And then you moved to live with your father and your brother.
[ she remembers the conversation they had. ]
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[ truly, an empty conversation it had been. (so she would prefer to think) ]
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[ Something she considers useless. She was told the same thing when her mother left her. ]
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[ ...by which she means 'sorry excuses for people'. same thing. clever word play. ...kufufuf. she must be really tired. ]
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I can only imagine.
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Get a lot of "sorry"s when your mum and dad kicked it, did ya?
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When my father died you'd think the entire kingdom was sorry. I heard apologies for months.
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I don't want to, either. But now everyone here... [ she trails off, and rubs hands over her face before resting them over her eyes. ] You'd think they know what it's like.
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Why would they, really? Perhaps they always had mothers and fathers who stayed, for a change.
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[ Minatsuki is trying to remind herself to play nice. ]
I've run out of ways to say I don't need their sympathy. If I'm nice they just think they're right and try to coddle me, they assume I've just got walls up. But they're wrong.
[ right right right right. ]
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Mind them not, then.
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