[ she bites her lip and flinches again at the accusation -- no, the implication of what she's just done, and she blinks rapidly to fend off any more encroaching tears. no, she hadn't meant it like that. dammit. olivia's so much better at this part of being a vorbarra princess, the stupid politicking down to the last grain of sand. sonia never learned to navigate that so smoothly, so knowingly, never really wanted to. maybe that was the problem, but -- she'd never accepted being here as much as olivia had managed to. for just a moment, sonia looks so much younger than she is, plainly shaken, but then she shakes her head, expression set. ]
Try me. [ her voice isn't as steady as she'd like, so she lifts her chin and tries again. ] I want to hear it anyway.
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Try me. [ her voice isn't as steady as she'd like, so she lifts her chin and tries again. ] I want to hear it anyway.