How you could be so cruel as to suggest that emotions really have nothing to do with whether or not someone stays safe? [Yes, how could he be so cruel to point out the facts of life? Elizabeth arches an eyebrow, clearly unimpressed with whoever thought that worrying would do something. Elizabeth had never expected her worrying to perform any magic, and she still worried sometimes. But it wasn't productive as action could be.]
[She smiles and shrugs her shoulders a little, taking the 'anomaly' comment as a complement (even though it sounds eerily close to what Gai had said about her when they'd first met).] I had a lot of... fantastical ideas about the world when I was younger. But it's a lot more complicated and darker than what I'd originally thought.
[She looks balefully into her glass, then around at some of the people talking in groups. They looked so naive, all of a sudden.]
Maybe it's not their fault, though. Maybe they've just always lived in a world where bad things never happened to good people, or when bad things did happen, there was someone there to right it.
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[She smiles and shrugs her shoulders a little, taking the 'anomaly' comment as a complement (even though it sounds eerily close to what Gai had said about her when they'd first met).] I had a lot of... fantastical ideas about the world when I was younger. But it's a lot more complicated and darker than what I'd originally thought.
[She looks balefully into her glass, then around at some of the people talking in groups. They looked so naive, all of a sudden.]
Maybe it's not their fault, though. Maybe they've just always lived in a world where bad things never happened to good people, or when bad things did happen, there was someone there to right it.