Bend until I break

Dalila's ears flicked back and her brows pulled together as Siren immediately replied that she saw her as her partner at the question of what she was to her, wondering to herself how that could possibly be true. In her mind, partners felt like they were supposed to be equal or at least over lapping in their care for one another and how much they did for each other. Even though she had loved Siren and Siren had seemingly reciprocated that love, she had never felt even close to equal with Siren. She didn't expect herself to suddenly reach the level of a princess like Siren, but she doubted that someone that was considered a partner would be expected to take care of their every little need. Of course she knew she was partially to blame for how their relationship had been. She was blinded by love, unable and unwilling to see the imbalance of things between them. Just being cared for by someone for the first time in her life and by someone like Siren no less had been enough. She liked having a job to do and taking care of Siren had made her happy, but as the scales tipped from friendship to love she had begun to feel as if it was supposed to be more than it was and she felt foolish for assuming things that weren't there.

She glanced up at Siren for the first time when she began to speak about how she had been free ever since they exchanged her for Ali. She looked at Siren with disbelief at the statement, listening as she was told how she was never forced into anything and listened to Siren's apologies. "But you... You never said..." But had she ever asked? She had been too indebted to Siren for everything she had given to buy Aliana and for how she had stood up for her to Chimera to even look past her own love and devotion. She turned her gaze away again, her conflicted emotions playing across her face. "I don't want you to feel like you have to free me just because I brought it up. If... If you want me to be your servant then that's what I can be I just... I can't be both." Her being free wasn't even the biggest problem. That was just a side effect of her conversation with Aliana, a point of contention that she hadn't even considered.

What Siren had done and what she had allowed was what hurt her most. "I... I just..." Her jaw tightened, looking down at her paws as she tried to keep herself together and keep herself from crying as she fought through her emotions to finally put it into words no matter how much it hurt. It was a conversation that had to happen and should have happened long before it got to this point. "I thought that you loved me... I thought that we were in a relationship..." She gave a little shake of her head, her eyes squeezing closed to keep the tears that threatened to spill out of them at bay. "I know I'm not good enough for you. You're beautiful and a princess and I'm just... But I can't have you, can I? I can't have you to myself... Every time I see you with Chimera and now this with this other man and these pups you want to keep I..." It hurt. It all hurt. "It's my fault for thinking that we were more than we were, I... I should have asked, I just..." she added softly, resigning herself to the fact that the idyllic picture she had of them was false.

"Dalila"