[ When she spots Gray's expression, her own darkens. ]
You'd better wipe that look off your face, mouse. Even if my birth was twisted, everything after that — becoming a knight, turning against the king, starting the war that destroyed Britain — were my own choices. Maybe they were in line with what my mother wanted, but that's not why I made any of them. So don't you dare insult my pride by pitying me.
[ That's why she won't pity Gray, either. She'll get mad for her, but to pity her would be to reduce both of them to victims of circumstance, of someone else's face, to insult the work she's put in to become "Gray" and not just "Arthur's vessel". They're more than what others tried to shape them into. ]
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You'd better wipe that look off your face, mouse. Even if my birth was twisted, everything after that — becoming a knight, turning against the king, starting the war that destroyed Britain — were my own choices. Maybe they were in line with what my mother wanted, but that's not why I made any of them. So don't you dare insult my pride by pitying me.
[ That's why she won't pity Gray, either. She'll get mad for her, but to pity her would be to reduce both of them to victims of circumstance, of someone else's face, to insult the work she's put in to become "Gray" and not just "Arthur's vessel". They're more than what others tried to shape them into. ]