Help it does - make her worse, that is. The book is dropped onto the floor with a thump. Furious, bristling with it. All half of Magni's height and determinedly getting in her space. She doesn't quite make it to poking her in the chest in a demand for attention.

But oh, if it isn't that a thought. "Of course, you say nothing. You never do." Started now, can't stop. That way she never held back in anything, at least when she felt it mattered. More than fair, most of the time, to all the things Magni needed, whatever freedoms she wanted, Lakshmi gladly gave them. She didn't need gold and silver, all she wanted, from time to time, was acknowledgement. Thought. "Do I ask for too much? Do I bother you so? Have I offended you in some way that you send me away on my birthday and you cannot even care to accompany me?"