[In her world, it is a matter of turning it off, at least in some instances. She knows vampires can do it, has heard stories about the ones that have. The assumed intended jab isn't one at all, even if she's done so in the past.
She just assumes he's pretending he doesn't feel anything. After all, she's seen it before.
Hope is relieved when he doesn't say anything because there's really nothing to say. She knows she's right, and there's nothing anyone can say to make that truth go away. She halts in place as his hand comes up, and she sits down when he asks her to. Her teeth grind as she tries to ignore the darkness floating around in her head, the anxiety she feels about the pain that's coming. It's temporary, unlike the rest of her maladies.
She really needed to get out of her own head.]
Just do what you need to do.
[She turns her body slightly to the side, and she's pretty sure she feels the metal of the bullet scrape against one of her ribs.
And then he drops that on her out of nowhere. How is she even supposed to take that?]
You talked to my Dad?
[It's phrased as more of a 'why would you bother' than anything else, and she realizes she may not even get clarification before he starts to work and she can't think straight.]
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She just assumes he's pretending he doesn't feel anything. After all, she's seen it before.
Hope is relieved when he doesn't say anything because there's really nothing to say. She knows she's right, and there's nothing anyone can say to make that truth go away. She halts in place as his hand comes up, and she sits down when he asks her to. Her teeth grind as she tries to ignore the darkness floating around in her head, the anxiety she feels about the pain that's coming. It's temporary, unlike the rest of her maladies.
She really needed to get out of her own head.]
Just do what you need to do.
[She turns her body slightly to the side, and she's pretty sure she feels the metal of the bullet scrape against one of her ribs.
And then he drops that on her out of nowhere. How is she even supposed to take that?]
You talked to my Dad?
[It's phrased as more of a 'why would you bother' than anything else, and she realizes she may not even get clarification before he starts to work and she can't think straight.]