"For some, resistance against using a weapon is all someone needs. My people only bring up honor when we want to make someone feel bad for slighting us. I'm not foolish enough to believe that we're truly honorable in the end." She knows this now, though her thoughts before meeting Skaikru were different. Sometimes, her people had to fortify themselves against many attacks. It seems like she's not the only one.
"What just happened is a misunderstanding. I never asked to end our lesson. I intended to make it clear that you weren't to speak to me as many have spoken to my people before." But in that, she had lashed out in her cold, distant way, making the circumstances between them all the harder.
Lexa doesn't apologize for the misunderstanding, but then, she figures that she's not going to make amends through apologies in most scenarios. That's where her pride is an issue. Or where she's just plain difficult.
"If you wish to continue, I'd be glad to." Lexa also makes no remarks about friendship, as that would leave her too open, too bare, for someone to see. Intimacy is hard for her, and something that she enters with great difficulty if she acknowledges it.
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"What just happened is a misunderstanding. I never asked to end our lesson. I intended to make it clear that you weren't to speak to me as many have spoken to my people before." But in that, she had lashed out in her cold, distant way, making the circumstances between them all the harder.
Lexa doesn't apologize for the misunderstanding, but then, she figures that she's not going to make amends through apologies in most scenarios. That's where her pride is an issue. Or where she's just plain difficult.
"If you wish to continue, I'd be glad to." Lexa also makes no remarks about friendship, as that would leave her too open, too bare, for someone to see. Intimacy is hard for her, and something that she enters with great difficulty if she acknowledges it.