[ And if it were not so earnestly said, so desperately met, she might just laugh - how can they all be so ignorant? So foolish? She is beating her head against a wall of their ignorance.
The other reason she isn't - is because that laughter would all too quickly become hysterical in its fear for them. Like all rage, it comes from a place of terror - that what had happened will be repeated and she will be left burying them too as she has so many others in their stubborn need for a compassion she does not understand in such a way. ]
(You are not like Elena. )
[ Thrown out first and hard - she does not know the comparison he makes. That much is clear to her. ]
(and I have given my -word-, Shiro, as a Queen. If I am not held by that, I am not held by anything.)
[ Even when it was to her own detriment. It might just be about getting what she wants, in the end, but she does it all the same. ]
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The other reason she isn't - is because that laughter would all too quickly become hysterical in its fear for them. Like all rage, it comes from a place of terror - that what had happened will be repeated and she will be left burying them too as she has so many others in their stubborn need for a compassion she does not understand in such a way. ]
( You are not like Elena. )
[ Thrown out first and hard - she does not know the comparison he makes. That much is clear to her. ]
( and I have given my -word-, Shiro, as a Queen. If I am not held by that, I am not held by anything. )
[ Even when it was to her own detriment. It might just be about getting what she wants, in the end, but she does it all the same. ]