Then hopefully Amanda will be less doubting when Nolan comes to her with news of the Kaziri. Or Erep won't try to use Irisa as a weapon again.
[She turns her back on him again, irritated that he is so flippant about his potential to change the future. She's relatively sure that his intentions would be selfish. Her abrasive nature makes people assume the most of her- but hers is mostly of a fear of being hurt.]
[Considering she's already been tortured once, it's valid.]
You are lucky I have some empathy, or I'd smear your name across this town relentlessly. But all I really want to do is to be left alone for my chance at a new, clean life.
[She turns on him.] I've had that chance taken from me in Defiance, thanks to you back home. So you should probably leave. Before my empathy runs short. [And she's so, so grateful she's in a position where she can say that to him. It's freeing.]
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[She turns her back on him again, irritated that he is so flippant about his potential to change the future. She's relatively sure that his intentions would be selfish. Her abrasive nature makes people assume the most of her- but hers is mostly of a fear of being hurt.]
[Considering she's already been tortured once, it's valid.]
You are lucky I have some empathy, or I'd smear your name across this town relentlessly. But all I really want to do is to be left alone for my chance at a new, clean life.
[She turns on him.] I've had that chance taken from me in Defiance, thanks to you back home. So you should probably leave. Before my empathy runs short. [And she's so, so grateful she's in a position where she can say that to him. It's freeing.]