It is less any menace in his voice that makes her hackles rise, and more the offhandedness with which he brushes past her comment - much as he brushed off her attacks, in fact. Menace would be preferable. She has always preferred hatred to disregard.
She tilts her chin up, drawing herself to her full height (or as near as the sling will allow, since she can hardly put her shoulders back as she would like), and fixes him with the full force of her stare.
"Yours is a loose view of knowing," she remarks, after a moment, her words very carefully clipped. She is not about to deny what he is implying: she will dissemble, where it is needed, but she will not outright lie about this. Least of all when to do so would be thoroughly futile. "We have not been introduced, then, let me say."
All the while, her eyes remain on him, challenging, scrutinising. Trying to read that stony, scornful look, and coming up short.
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Date: 2023-11-21 02:04 am (UTC)She tilts her chin up, drawing herself to her full height (or as near as the sling will allow, since she can hardly put her shoulders back as she would like), and fixes him with the full force of her stare.
"Yours is a loose view of knowing," she remarks, after a moment, her words very carefully clipped. She is not about to deny what he is implying: she will dissemble, where it is needed, but she will not outright lie about this. Least of all when to do so would be thoroughly futile. "We have not been introduced, then, let me say."
All the while, her eyes remain on him, challenging, scrutinising. Trying to read that stony, scornful look, and coming up short.