Defensive, snappish. She knows he is right, she's well past tipsy, her small frame unused to alcohol. She's never liked the fogginess and heaviness of being intoxicated, the way it made her feel weak and ineffectual the one time she had gotten drunk before now. After the Games she still avoided it but now she was desperate for anything to avoid these several weeks and for a while she had felt a nice shade of warm and fuzzy.
Now she feels cold and ill, unwanted again.
"You don't have to excuse it, I understand." Message clear, universe, what is the point in trying if they're only going to leave or die. Well this time she gets to leave. She gestures expansively, swaying on her feet with the momentum, as she backs away. "Enjoy... the couch."
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Defensive, snappish. She knows he is right, she's well past tipsy, her small frame unused to alcohol. She's never liked the fogginess and heaviness of being intoxicated, the way it made her feel weak and ineffectual the one time she had gotten drunk before now. After the Games she still avoided it but now she was desperate for anything to avoid these several weeks and for a while she had felt a nice shade of warm and fuzzy.
Now she feels cold and ill, unwanted again.
"You don't have to excuse it, I understand." Message clear, universe, what is the point in trying if they're only going to leave or die. Well this time she gets to leave. She gestures expansively, swaying on her feet with the momentum, as she backs away. "Enjoy... the couch."
Yeah. Nailed it. He has it all to himself now.