[ well NYEH!!!!!!!!

honestly, it's the trauma talking. they say you could see Halia burning as far as the palace battlements, he'd said. pleased with himself, with his little plan. far, far too recent of a wound for this to go over anything but sourly. ]

You think you'd still feel that way if she picked you? [ sharply. ] Decided you needed to be the unlucky one whose number came up. Decided you deserved to be tossed aside for the better good.