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“No,” she pushes, “we’re not done here.”

“How can I trust you to speak with them reasonably when you can barely utter more than a single letter to me? How can I trust you to show respect to anyone?" She poses, tail flouncing. At this point she didn’t trust him to even be courteous! And she certainly wouldn’t serve as his character witness when all she’d ever gotten from him was lip.

"How can I trust you to be anything more than a liability?" She stood, demanding an answer. She didn’t get to go peacefully back to her bed. Neither did he.