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"Ugh. People"



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[abrightboy]

You set someone on fire? What the hell, Kikimora?

[stressingwitchface]

Only his shoes!

[abrightboy]

You know, when you've had... moments of misjudgement, people have been like wow, Bright, how can you let that little shit disturber have MAGIC? And I tell them, listen: she hasn't hurt anyone with magic; have some perspective.

What am I supposed to tell them now?

[stressingwitchface]

Who called me that?

You can TELL THEM that I don’t tolerate people standing outside my door waiting to spring a recorder in my face.

[abrightboy]

You cannot set people on fire for... you know what? That sentence doesn't need an end. You cannot set people on fire. You used your magic to harm another passenger. What do you suppose will be considered acceptable by your victim and his Warden in terms of restitution and remediation?

[stressingwitchface]

A recommendation for less flammable footwear.

[abrightboy]

You really don't have any respect at all for me, huh?

[stressingwitchface]

This wasn’t about you. He got in my face, I retaliated.

[abrightboy]

I'm referring to your answer to my question.

[stressingwitchface]

Why can’t I set people on fire?

[abrightboy]

If you don’t understand why hurting other people is bad, then your critics are right: I gave your magic back too soon.

[stressingwitchface]

So you just expect me to take disrespect and intrusion on my privacy?

[abrightboy]

Oh, I’m sorry; maybe I got the wrong information. Did he break into your cabin? Your workspace? Did he maybe call you names and stab you in your workspace with a cursed knife?

[stressingwitchface]

No.

[abrightboy]

Sooooo in what way was he disrespectful?

[stressingwitchface]

He was waiting outside my door like he was preparing to spring a trap.

And then he put a recorder in my face and asked me intrusive questions. He was RUDE.

[abrightboy]

Someone who clearly meant no harm behaving in a way you didn’t understand was rude?

[stressingwitchface]

If he was behaving in a way I didn’t understand, I normally take that as a threat.

[abrightboy]

Why?

[stressingwitchface]

Because it almost always IS. And I will not allow myself to be harmed by giving strangers the benefit of the doubt, Malcolm.

I will ALWAYS attack first if I’m threatened. I am the smallest creature here: if I allow an attack, I will likely not be in a position to retaliate.

So yes. I set a stranger lurking outside my door waiting for me on fire. The fact that you perceive him as harmless is not universal. ESPECIALLY when that someone is another inmate.

[abrightboy]

Did he have a weapon of any kind?

[stressingwitchface]

He was human. His whole body is a potential weapon.

[abrightboy]

How?

[stressingwitchface]

Look at me! I am SMALL. Fully one half to one third your height!

If he wished to, he could have easily immobilized me!

I will apologize for conceiving him as a larger threat than he actually was, but the fact remains that I am vulnerable to close range attacks.

[abrightboy]

So you want everyone to stay how far away from you, exactly?