[Even his stupid grin is welcome. All of the "pretty" things he's sent her over the years, the objects of his obsessions, she has every one. The vase as big as her, the clothes, the toys, the ribbons, the Normin.
Well, she'd had Phoenix until recently. The set of Nor dolls are somewhere with the rest of that crap.]
You should've been the one to have to deal with them in all those ruins then. It was boring to me.
[This is definitely one of the few areas where the siblings differ. He's a nerd. She's a troll. But they work together, for the most part. Or they had before he left her on that mountain because of his curse.]
What? [They haven't talked about her general dislike of humans and how angry she'd become over the years because of the way things turned out. She hadn't seen a point and she still doesn't. It won't change anything. He'll still end up a dragon and she'll still have to help take him down to save him, to put him out of their collective misery.
And it'll still hurt her with every unneeded breath she takes.] Am I not allowed to sympathize with fish?
And why not? She comes up with great ones.
Well, she'd had Phoenix until recently. The set of Nor dolls are somewhere with the rest of that crap.]
You should've been the one to have to deal with them in all those ruins then. It was boring to me.
[This is definitely one of the few areas where the siblings differ. He's a nerd. She's a troll. But they work together, for the most part. Or they had before he left her on that mountain because of his curse.]
What? [They haven't talked about her general dislike of humans and how angry she'd become over the years because of the way things turned out. She hadn't seen a point and she still doesn't. It won't change anything. He'll still end up a dragon and she'll still have to help take him down to save him, to put him out of their collective misery.
And it'll still hurt her with every unneeded breath she takes.] Am I not allowed to sympathize with fish?