[He's off in a corner of the mess hall by this point, looking moderately less worked up. But the dark cloud hasn't quite left his expression when he looks up at Lili's approach, then back down to where his hands stay folded on the table, face carefully neutral.]
You saw that too, huh.
[Hard not to see, Guy, you punched two whole doors.
A beat. He'll nod with his head for her to sit, unable to reach for the cup right this moment.]
Sorry. It's not right of me to lose my temper like that.
[ . . . hm. she seems to recognize her mistake then, instead just putting the offered cup down at the halfway space between them before going to sit down.]
... no. You shouldn't have to apologize for your anger, not when this place is the cause of it. When we shouldn't have to lose people in the first place.
[she keeps her own cup between her hands, as if it'll manage to calm her. even if she wasn't close to the person who passed, there's still an anger simmering beneath her words]
So don't say sorry when you don't owe anyone anything.
[He'll unfold his hands to reach for the cup, the raw, bruised skin across his knuckles easily visible from doing who knows what.]
...It's not like that. Not entirely, anyway.
Being angry in a place like this is a given. But not channeling it into something productive only wastes your own energy and makes the situation that much harder for the people around you.
I'm not going to apologize for my anger, because what I care about doesn't deserve an apology for something like that. But I can still have regrets for how I decided to react. Given that I keep telling some of the kids around here to be careful with their temper, I wouldn't be leading a very good example.
[ . . . she wrinkles her nose at that if only because - ]
Why bother controlling your temper? It's not yet trial. You don't have to keep it together if you don't want to.
As long as you're not hurting yourself too much, or the people around you, why can't you hit things and act out? I don't think there's any need to limit yourself on what you're allowed to feel.
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You saw that too, huh.
[Hard not to see, Guy, you punched two whole doors.
A beat. He'll nod with his head for her to sit, unable to reach for the cup right this moment.]
Sorry. It's not right of me to lose my temper like that.
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... no. You shouldn't have to apologize for your anger, not when this place is the cause of it. When we shouldn't have to lose people in the first place.
[she keeps her own cup between her hands, as if it'll manage to calm her. even if she wasn't close to the person who passed, there's still an anger simmering beneath her words]
So don't say sorry when you don't owe anyone anything.
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...It's not like that. Not entirely, anyway.
Being angry in a place like this is a given. But not channeling it into something productive only wastes your own energy and makes the situation that much harder for the people around you.
I'm not going to apologize for my anger, because what I care about doesn't deserve an apology for something like that. But I can still have regrets for how I decided to react. Given that I keep telling some of the kids around here to be careful with their temper, I wouldn't be leading a very good example.
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Why bother controlling your temper? It's not yet trial. You don't have to keep it together if you don't want to.
As long as you're not hurting yourself too much, or the people around you, why can't you hit things and act out? I don't think there's any need to limit yourself on what you're allowed to feel.