I wasn't talking about the Empire specifically, Ben. I'm not an idiot.
[ And her frustration has shortened her patience, predictably and understandably, to make that rebuttal terse and clipped — exasperated and exhausted around its jagged edges. Her education may be lacking, but she's heard enough snippets and combed through enough databases not to be so sheltered as to believe the Empire. Thinking her that ignorant teeters on insulting.
Straightening with a resolve that indicates she's made up her mind, she looks to the stars and then his reflection, and takes an unbalanced step backward. ]
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[ And her frustration has shortened her patience, predictably and understandably, to make that rebuttal terse and clipped — exasperated and exhausted around its jagged edges. Her education may be lacking, but she's heard enough snippets and combed through enough databases not to be so sheltered as to believe the Empire. Thinking her that ignorant teeters on insulting.
Straightening with a resolve that indicates she's made up her mind, she looks to the stars and then his reflection, and takes an unbalanced step backward. ]
Good luck figuring it out, then.