[There's a lot more she wants to say, that she wants to ask - Do you pity me? Do you think less of me now, for having failed at the accomplishment you've been told that graduation is? - but she doesn't want to know the answer. The ignorance gnaws at her, but she'd rather be discomfited by that than risk the genuine pain of knowing.
Are you happy, Morgana?
She settles for changing the subject instead.]
...Iris mentioned that the crew has changed. Younger. Fewer 'hard cases'.
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[There's a lot more she wants to say, that she wants to ask - Do you pity me? Do you think less of me now, for having failed at the accomplishment you've been told that graduation is? - but she doesn't want to know the answer. The ignorance gnaws at her, but she'd rather be discomfited by that than risk the genuine pain of knowing.
Are you happy, Morgana?
She settles for changing the subject instead.]
...Iris mentioned that the crew has changed. Younger. Fewer 'hard cases'.
[Very clearly not her words.]