[This outpouring of emotion, full of strange and entirely new information, has Lusamine unmoved. Through it all, she can only think, What nonsense. Even if she were to accept it as truth, she cannot conceive of Lillie's intentions as so altruistic.
There is a retort waiting on her tongue, but the kettle interrupts Gladion with its whistling before she can use it. As he fumbles with the dial, Lusamine sits silent, still, and straight-backed, pretending to be the more put-together of the two of them. Well, her face might say if he were to turn and face it, I'm so glad you've gotten that out of your system.
Her reply comes belatedly, in a low and vengeful voice.]
She chased me. She and that hateful little trainer... hunted me down when I had finally found paradise... I would not have been in the state you describe at all if she just had the sense to leave me be...
[Vexed, she takes in a breath and releases it in a shaky exhale.]
But you just cannot stand it, can you? Neither of you! You cannot stand to see me find any small bit of happiness, in any world...
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There is a retort waiting on her tongue, but the kettle interrupts Gladion with its whistling before she can use it. As he fumbles with the dial, Lusamine sits silent, still, and straight-backed, pretending to be the more put-together of the two of them. Well, her face might say if he were to turn and face it, I'm so glad you've gotten that out of your system.
Her reply comes belatedly, in a low and vengeful voice.]
She chased me. She and that hateful little trainer... hunted me down when I had finally found paradise... I would not have been in the state you describe at all if she just had the sense to leave me be...
[Vexed, she takes in a breath and releases it in a shaky exhale.]
But you just cannot stand it, can you? Neither of you! You cannot stand to see me find any small bit of happiness, in any world...