Don't paint wonderful lies on me that wash away
Pausing in her aimless meandering to consider, she wiggled a reluctant hand in a manner to imply uncertainty. "I would assume so? We argued though, so that may have something to do with it. I admit I got heated and didn't choose my words well, but the message was fairly clear; get in line or get out. And I refuse to sit on my hands and do nothing while my home is threatened, just because there's risk involved."
Being told that losing her job was a good thing really did throw Maea for a loop. Staring at the priestess for a moment, something fell away beneath the fire within her and with a long sigh she seemed to deflate where she stood. Shrinking back into herself until that tired, listless expression returned. Merely upset, and tired, and lost.
"I guess. It's not really losing the job that upsets me. It's the way they ask why I did what I did and don't listen to the answer. It's the way I seem to have lost a lot of friends because I didn't run scared the way I probably should have... I don't know. Is it really that outrageous to stand up for oneself in the face of overwhelming odds? I'm not asking anyone to thank me or even to agree with my choices. But the way some have acted, it's as if I purposely set up the meeting just to paint targets on their back, judging by the way they scoff and threaten when I refuse to apologize for it." Mostly Deimos, honestly, but he hadn't been alone in expressing the sentiment.
Being told that losing her job was a good thing really did throw Maea for a loop. Staring at the priestess for a moment, something fell away beneath the fire within her and with a long sigh she seemed to deflate where she stood. Shrinking back into herself until that tired, listless expression returned. Merely upset, and tired, and lost.
"I guess. It's not really losing the job that upsets me. It's the way they ask why I did what I did and don't listen to the answer. It's the way I seem to have lost a lot of friends because I didn't run scared the way I probably should have... I don't know. Is it really that outrageous to stand up for oneself in the face of overwhelming odds? I'm not asking anyone to thank me or even to agree with my choices. But the way some have acted, it's as if I purposely set up the meeting just to paint targets on their back, judging by the way they scoff and threaten when I refuse to apologize for it." Mostly Deimos, honestly, but he hadn't been alone in expressing the sentiment.
