"Why am I confusing?" Gods, did everyone hate her? "I'm just a person... am I really that difficult to deal with?"
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"You young," he reiterated. "I old, Ash old too, sort of. We just confuse by young people. Old peoples like that sometimes."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"He's not that old," Ky said, brow furrowed. She supposed Rönn had a pass, what with being centuries old. He was also confusing to her, a little. But mostly just interesting. It was bad to be confused. She didn't want them to think she was bad.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"Older than twenty, too old to know how teenager think anymore. It not mean he hate you."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"I don't understand." She sighed and propped her chin up on her knees. "If I'm so confusing, then why not just ask me what you don't understand?"
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"Mm." She still had her brow furrowed. "Well that's not my fault."
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"No, not your fault. Point is, he like you fine, just not sure what to do. Probably worry he make you angry."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"Make me angry?" she scoffed. "He's the one who's always angry. If I try to be nice. If I try to be honest. If I talk -- if I don't talk. He won't tell me what he wants and then gets mad that I don't give it to him."
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
He shook his head. "He a noble, he proud. What you expect? You talk to him about this?"
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"How am I supposed to talk to him about this when I can't even talk about happy things without making him mad?" Ky asked. "And Tomhas is a noble, too. Nobles don't have to be this proud."
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"What, he not like happy things?" He shook his head. "How? Why?"
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"I don't know!" she said, feeling justified in the fact that Rönn was as confused by Gaius as she was. "That's the problem. I don't understand him. And every time I try to compliment him -- even if I really mean it -- he gets mad at me and tells me I'm wrong."
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"He shy about feeling," Rönn suggested hesitantly. "I know his family bad, maybe feeling hard for him? I hear stories."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Ky cringed sympathetically. "Maybe... I don't know. I wish he would just tell me what he wants from me. I'd do it happily. I just don't know what 'it' is."
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
