What Is Going On?

And the moment the smaller female realized Lillianna had caught her, she tried to back away and then fell into a fighting stance, as if Lillie was going to attack her. Lillie's jaw dropped as she took in the wary stance, the mistrust, the narrowed eyes, and wrinkled nose... and then she started laughing at the bullshit that just came out of Sparrow's mouth.

"Oh really now?" Lillianna drawled, the growl disappearing and the larger woman sat down abruptly, head tilted and eyes narrowed in calculation. "So when surprised, you regularly freeze at the thing that surprised you and then start running as if your damned life depended on it?" Maybe with that wording, Sparrow would realize how badly she lied. "And when I finally catch you because you're running for some damned reason you immediately drop into an attack stance as if I'm going to try and kill you? And when I ask you why the hell you're acting like this, you fucking lie and come up with bullshit?" It made absolutely zero. fucking. sense.

"I realized you didn't like me - you made that much clear from the very start - but what the hell have I done to make you afraid of me? What the hell have I done to make you hate me that much that you'll still attempt to lie when it's complete bullshit? Because it sure doesn't make sense to me and I'm not just going to sit here and take it. If you don't spill right now, I'm just going to go to someone who will." Meaning Bass, or Lark, or Starling, or someone else whom Lillie was sure had no idea Sparrow was acting this way. And then they'd get the answers and Lillie would get them regardless.


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