It's always too easy to bite, too rise up. She could all but hear her father in her ear for the times when she was younger and she lost her temper at the boys playing, or her cousins pushing and pulling. Strange, she feels like she can almost hear the noise he used to make - a little cough, that said that is enough now, you made your point.

But that was ridiculous, he wasn't here, and she never did stop well. "Stop? So you can console me? You will have to talk to me to do that! You love me, I know you do, as I love you - yet you cannot spare me even a word? Let me even speak? I remember your people's names, I remember all of your family. But you, you can't even spare me a word!"