[His smile makes her want to strike him again. But she finds she can't bring herself to raise the sword once more. He isn't fighting her. He is just talking and though the talk is maddening she can't, won't, raise a weapon against someone who so clearly has no will to fight back.
She isn't that sort of person. If she went around killing everyone who pissed her off she could never face her friends with her head held high.]
Because you're not one of us. [Her expression is hard.] You don't know what we went through together. You never will. She might tell you about it someday but you won't have gone through it with her. You didn't see her taken from her friends and family, you didn't watch her and protect her while she grew alongside us. That was me and Felix and Piers who did. She is too precious to me for me to just stand there and watch a stranger with her life in his hands.
Now you listen to me. [She knows she sounds hysterical. She knows she will probably regret this once she has her head on straight and isn't emotionally volatile from a week straight of listening to the ghosts of her past. She keeps talking anyway.] She doesn't belong here. She should be safe and sound at home. After everything she went through she more than earned it. But since she isn't there, I'm going to do everything in my power to keep her safe until she can go back. And that means you can just back off because I will never allow you to take her from her home and the people who care about her most. She has a life and a family on Weyard and from what told me, since she doesn't remember coming down from the last lighthouse before she appeared here, she hasn't seen them in years. Not since they saw her make a fall that everyone, including her, thought would be the death of her. I don't want her getting attached and choosing not to go home if she has the chance to! It was hard enough watching her go when she chose to go back to Lalivero instead of staying with Felix and me and the rest of us, okay?! So, so just back off!
[Jenna's abandonment issues rear their ugly heads once more.]
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She isn't that sort of person. If she went around killing everyone who pissed her off she could never face her friends with her head held high.]
Because you're not one of us. [Her expression is hard.] You don't know what we went through together. You never will. She might tell you about it someday but you won't have gone through it with her. You didn't see her taken from her friends and family, you didn't watch her and protect her while she grew alongside us. That was me and Felix and Piers who did. She is too precious to me for me to just stand there and watch a stranger with her life in his hands.
Now you listen to me. [She knows she sounds hysterical. She knows she will probably regret this once she has her head on straight and isn't emotionally volatile from a week straight of listening to the ghosts of her past. She keeps talking anyway.] She doesn't belong here. She should be safe and sound at home. After everything she went through she more than earned it. But since she isn't there, I'm going to do everything in my power to keep her safe until she can go back. And that means you can just back off because I will never allow you to take her from her home and the people who care about her most. She has a life and a family on Weyard and from what told me, since she doesn't remember coming down from the last lighthouse before she appeared here, she hasn't seen them in years. Not since they saw her make a fall that everyone, including her, thought would be the death of her. I don't want her getting attached and choosing not to go home if she has the chance to! It was hard enough watching her go when she chose to go back to Lalivero instead of staying with Felix and me and the rest of us, okay?! So, so just back off!
[Jenna's abandonment issues rear their ugly heads once more.]