(me) Alleer huffs, continuing to walk away. "If we don't show you your foolishness, you'll never see it."
*Thalia is silent. There's no argument this time, no snarky come-back to retort. She just sits there, defeated and confused.*
"I..."
*The word comes out strangled, like something inside of her throat is holding her back. She tries again, forcing the words through gritted teeth. It's like a battle within herself, her loyalty to the Order fighting with some other feeling, something that's been stirring up inside of her.*
"I can't just... question everything I know."
(me) "You already are. You always have, poor thing." Alleer pauses to look back at her for a moment. She feels the need to punctuate her point with, "I am married. Remember that."
*The words send a strange pang through Thalia's chest. The image of Alleer and Lenore together flashes through her head-the way they kissed, the look in their eyes, the way they'd embraced so fiercely-and again, her stomach twists with something like confusion. Or perhaps... something else.
The words 'I am married.’ Thalia repeats them in her head a few times, and she cannot say why exactly they seem so significant to her in that moment.*
OH MY GOD??????? ??
