Private - Lua:

[vampish_aleera]

You have not been wholly truthful with me.

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[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

...I wouldn't be in it. [ More truth. ]

[vampish_aleera]

This was not my question.

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

...find someone who'd listen to me.

[vampish_aleera]

I would listen to you.

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

But you already did it.

[vampish_aleera]

Why did you do it, Lua?

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

I did it. Why doesn't matter.

[vampish_aleera]

It matters because I must decide on best how to discipline you...

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

Then why do you think I did it?

[vampish_aleera]

I always preferred my teachers to let me tell them of my motivations... I offer you this opportunity now.

I suggest it be taken.

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

If I don't? [ No challenge here. ]

[vampish_aleera]

I will have no choice but to make assumptions. Is that what you wish?

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

[ It can't get worse. She takes a deep breath, but still takes a few moments to start speaking. ] I hate him.

[ This, too, is true, if not the reason. ]

[vampish_aleera]

It must have been a great hatred for you to have harmed him so... What caused this?

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

... he's the guy I wanted to keep myself safe from.

And he's hurt my friends. [ She knows Aleera knows about her husband, she doubts she knows about Amanda. ]

[vampish_aleera]

Which friends...? How?

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

That girl he knows from back home - the one in a coma right now. He killed the only person who's ever loved her.

And you saw what he did here. Took the kindest thing someone's ever done to him and threw it back in his face.

[vampish_aleera]

No. I know nothing of him, except how he whines and moans like old peasant fishwife. Even when he was bound to me as a brother through blood.

That he was so spiteful with his gift is not for you to take revenge on.

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

When someone saves you, your life's theirs. He doesn't deserve his. [ There are a lot of emotions she can sound convincing about, but that type of hatred? Not one of them, though she's trying. ]

[vampish_aleera]

Lua!

[It's sharp, like telling an aggressive dog to sit down. Possibly the most glaring insight she's given her inmate as to her own potential viciousness. Even if only audible.]

This was not for you to decree... Debts should be honoured, but one does not give servitude where it is not required. You must learn this.

[There is a pause.]

You have proven yourself unworthy of blades and other weapons. I shall take of these what you have, until you earn the right to wield them. You will offer apologies to your victim... In public.

And then I shall decide what more shall be done with you.

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

He knows I wish I hadn't. He knew before anybody found out.

[ She's not ruining everything she's built up. Anything else is fine, she deserves worse for wanting to sell the whole ship over, but she can't live like that. ]

[vampish_aleera]

I do not care. You will do this thing.

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

...there's more, though.

[vampish_aleera]

Go on...

[dovehearted.livejournal.com]

You know about people having to cause trouble to get out of here, right?