Time to Look in the Mirror

Desponia · 08-04-2022, 05:38 PM

Ah fuck. Desponia thought as she heard her sister starting to talk, though she still trailed behind Manea. She'd known it would only be a matter of time until her half-sister confronted her about that, though at least as far as Desponia was concerned it was still self-defense, she'd not thrown a punch until her niece had first. But frankly, she wasn't expecting the words that followed... She decided it was best not to respond yet, get too defensive and it'd only give her sister a reason to find fault with it no doubt, and she wasn't sure that there still wasn't an ulterior motive. It struck her as odd still though, as far as Desponia had been concerned not a single one of her estranged family seemed likely to ever stoop so low as to compliment her, and yet her sister, the woman she least expected to do so based solely on the rage with which she'd pursued Desponia when she could have simply let her move on and live her life away from them all... It seemed... Well, she didn't want to say nice, it was almost certainly too good to be true but well... It gave her pause.

It certainly didn't prepare her for what would be said next. An apology? For all the work she'd been doing to keep her cards close to her chest that all fell away for a moment, she stopped walking and she stood there simply blinking for a moment. A million and one thoughts were racing through her head and she had to actively bite down the instinct to respond with open hostility. It had felt so obvious to her that her sister was being hypocritical, she was being punished for her mother's sins against the family's beliefs but her sister had also refused to follow them, she did not know the circumstances of her nice and nephew's birth but she was pretty sure both of them weren't supposed to be running around. So yeah it took a lot of control to bite down the desire to snarkily agree that Manea was being a hypocrite.

Finally, she seemed to get herself together enough that she moved forward, though she continued to remain silent for a while as she thought about her next words very carefully. "So what's next?" She asked. She wasn't going to say her sister was forgiven, because while she could accept the apology for now she wasn't forgiving Manea, not yet. It was admittedly petty but she didn't really care much if her sister felt she needed it or whatever, she wanted to know what Manea's plan was for her in this case. Would she have her freedom? Or was it all just fluff to make Manea feel better about herself.

"Speech"

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