❛ this is not a debate ! ❜ / back to do what she does best: argue
❝ ——You say this as if I care.❞ Full of [overpowering] venom. The voice rode on the stale air, swelling up. (Whatever twisting intestines, something unruly takes its place; nothing humanistic. The pain bared like second skin. Diaphragm expanding then tearing, reassembled, mote by mote. ) He remains observing Ismahan, hawk-like, until he's felt he's stretched the silence enough between them. ❝ My patience is wearing thin. Always with you. ❞