I’m glad I slept on that post and made some edits this evening.
Xodus, I think you intended to make Lina mad, and you succeeded admirably. Her first impulse was to pack up and drive to the safehouse in Denver, and call her superior officer on the way. I talked her out of that. Her second impulse was to punch Angel in the face, or kick him in the shins, and I talked her out of that too. But try as I might, I couldn’t make her just sit there and take it while Reri called her trash and Angel taunted her. It was difficult to write because she is so much smarter, calmer and more gentle about it than I could ever be. I struggled to express everything the way she wanted me to.
Thank goodness Kai is the kind of character who’s capable of hating them quietly from now on… possibly finding a way to not save them in combat. XD
Sorry it’s such a long post again. To be fair, a lot of it is X’s copypasta’d dialogue.
If anyone’s interested, the song that I was listening to while writing and quoted in the post is
Words As Weapons by Seether.