"If you think I'm pretty
You should see me in a crown."
- Billie Eilish
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⭲ Lucie facepalmed after staying silent for the longest time. “If Ivelda doesn’t kill me, the sheer stupidity gathered in this room will.” She muttered under her breath, unimpressed by everyone, Lilith, Eowyn, and the questions so far. It didn’t really change anything for Lucie who was determined as ever to right the wrongs committed and return to the way things were supposed to be. However, listening to everyone talk right now was like having her brain smooshed against a cheese grater over and over. The only good news she'd heard was that the princes were all alive. She had assumed they were tossed in a ditch somewhere.
Lucie began with Lilith. “You want to wait 2 more weeks because of the education system? What’s at stake if you don't? Grades? Isn’t Rhindeval more important and uh, lives? Figure out where your loyalties and priorities lie." she said in a condescending tone.
Then she turned to Eowyn as the other older figure in the room. “And with all due respect, you’ve been tiptoeing around a treaty for 13 years? I may not know much about Rhindeval as it is today but you do and I can’t believe that’s the lame excuse you have after all this time for not doing more. You know all about the suffering, the brainwash, and all the tricks going on at Ivelda’s freakshow and yet, still tiptoeing. So, I don't believe that you will do 'whatever you can to help us'. You should be ashamed of yourself. The balance has been tipped immeasurably and irreversibly.”
Then she turned to Reese and... paused. Her finger pointed at Reese, she opened her mouth and then paused again. It was hard to process the problem with that one. Before finally, “Reese, that was T.M.I. I know you're a total nut job and I TOTALLY get now why you went barbaric on me the other day with your unresolved trauma issues but go get therapy or something. I don’t want to hear you yap on about your mumsy’s rolling head and whatever else is wrong with you. If you can't afford it, perhaps the university counselor because Y i k e s.” she said, taking a step back from her general direction to emphasize her point.
She dropped her finger and moved onto Artemisia with her hands on her hips. That girl really got on her nerves, always trying to hog the spotlight when it was undeserved and uncalled for. Lucie laughed a bit though then brought her fist to rest against her bottom lip as she cleared her throat politely. “You could not care less if we feel differently hmm? That sounds like a greeaat family dynamic." Lucie said, clasping her hands together and batting her eyelashes exaggeratedly. "Personally, I'm not going to take advice or draw inspiration from a graffiti artist and a fictional character. What do you think this is? The formation of the Winx Club? Powerpuff Girls? Whatever magical fantasy girl group you're thinking of, speak for yourself. I don't need a nutjob or you. You must have a mouth full of cavities from all that sugarcoating rubbish..." She said, shooing her away like Reese.
Lucie then released a sigh of relief that she got to say almost everything that was building inside her head. She thought she might explode if she didn't. Venting helped. “No questions." Lucie added with a closed eyes smile, holding her hand up with an open palm as if she were the one people had questions for not Eowyn.