Forsake your loved ones, to protect yourself.
Delphine tipped her head, curious. "When friend did I 'jerk' around?" It was an honest question. Now she was the one who was forgetting things. His voice told her that he was upset with her, now that he remembered the things she had down, and she was fine with that.
Until he started calling her names. 'Useless', 'unreliable', 'terrible'. Each thing struck a chord, each thing was a thought she had about herself every single morning. Instead of leaving, like the passive girl she had been, or ignoring what he had said and smiling through it as she once may have, she stepped towards him and raised a hand back.
She was attempting to slap him. She'd lose in an all-out fight, that much she knew. She was just as weak as ever, except this time that applied to her magic as well. "It isn't nice to project yourself onto others," she had no idea if those words applied to Loren, but, he had hurt her feelings, might as well try to replicate that. She spoke regardless of if she was able to hit the man.
Until he started calling her names. 'Useless', 'unreliable', 'terrible'. Each thing struck a chord, each thing was a thought she had about herself every single morning. Instead of leaving, like the passive girl she had been, or ignoring what he had said and smiling through it as she once may have, she stepped towards him and raised a hand back.
She was attempting to slap him. She'd lose in an all-out fight, that much she knew. She was just as weak as ever, except this time that applied to her magic as well. "It isn't nice to project yourself onto others," she had no idea if those words applied to Loren, but, he had hurt her feelings, might as well try to replicate that. She spoke regardless of if she was able to hit the man.
