They're alive. They're alive, she hadn't fucked up, she had calculated it all correctly and for a second Rose cares about nothing else. She feels warm, she feel happy, happy and relieved and it shows for that one second, all her features softening. She's always tried to ignore her fears and concerns, that she was wrong, that she was looking at the wrong fate and to be told it isn't so... It's a relief she never thought she'd get.
But it fades. It fades as soon as that troll opens her mouth, and Rose can recognise the differences in how it speaks English and after years of despising one, despising them all, it's impossible to not feel at edge when Terezi speaks. It's behavious she'll have to unlearn and in truth she isn't planning to. Dave may be trying to vouch for her, but she knows Dave. She knows that he can be a fool, that he doesn't always see what she sees. And he's so young now, he hasn't dealt with them the way that she has.
"I'm not your friend," she finally says, sharp like a blade, and Rose draws herself to her full height, chin raised proudly as if she isn't the shortest one here. She doesn't look to Dave, won't let him try and talk her into being kinder with stupid jokes and incorrect thoughts.
Her inhale is steady and she holds the silence before finally continuing. "But I'll keep it until the next arena. If only to ensure Dave doesn't get dragged into this." A pause, only a heartbeat. "But that does not make us friends, and you'll be wise to stay away." From her, from Dave.
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But it fades. It fades as soon as that troll opens her mouth, and Rose can recognise the differences in how it speaks English and after years of despising one, despising them all, it's impossible to not feel at edge when Terezi speaks. It's behavious she'll have to unlearn and in truth she isn't planning to. Dave may be trying to vouch for her, but she knows Dave. She knows that he can be a fool, that he doesn't always see what she sees. And he's so young now, he hasn't dealt with them the way that she has.
"I'm not your friend," she finally says, sharp like a blade, and Rose draws herself to her full height, chin raised proudly as if she isn't the shortest one here. She doesn't look to Dave, won't let him try and talk her into being kinder with stupid jokes and incorrect thoughts.
Her inhale is steady and she holds the silence before finally continuing. "But I'll keep it until the next arena. If only to ensure Dave doesn't get dragged into this." A pause, only a heartbeat. "But that does not make us friends, and you'll be wise to stay away." From her, from Dave.