Don't try to justify it, [ she snaps, too loudly to be ignored over the din of the tavern. ] You lied.
[ to me remains unspoken in that repetition, heavy in the air, but the truth remains. he'd made a fool of her, and now he intends to treat it flippantly — dumbly, as though he is a child unaware of what she's done. she isn't having it. ]
I'll deliver her answers on my own.
[ if only because she does not trust him to deliver the answers himself, not now, and she has no desire to linger in his company for longer when he has proven what he still is — a warning, in case she has forgotten. once again, she has trusted him; once again, he has gone against her wishes without a care for them. the throne room is still a fresh wound, ringing in her head, but she pushes through the tavern door without so much as sparing a glance in his direction. ]
no subject
[ to me remains unspoken in that repetition, heavy in the air, but the truth remains. he'd made a fool of her, and now he intends to treat it flippantly — dumbly, as though he is a child unaware of what she's done. she isn't having it. ]
I'll deliver her answers on my own.
[ if only because she does not trust him to deliver the answers himself, not now, and she has no desire to linger in his company for longer when he has proven what he still is — a warning, in case she has forgotten. once again, she has trusted him; once again, he has gone against her wishes without a care for them. the throne room is still a fresh wound, ringing in her head, but she pushes through the tavern door without so much as sparing a glance in his direction. ]