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[This is another thing Emily regularly does, bring up things you've done to her. (If the reverse occurs, she'll find a way to dismiss it quickly, how dare you.) It's not personal so much as a way of reminding people that she has (or should have) the upper hand.

And really, Emily gets what Maketh is saying. For someone so stubborn, and so obsessed with being in control, Emily sure does lose it a lot where these gods are concerned.]

Yeah. Same. So, like, in that case, it wouldn't be your fault. I'd still be pissed, but I wouldn't be pissed at you for very long.

[She imagines the opposite would be the same, though she wouldn't be happy about having to apologize and wait for Maketh or whoever to get over it.]

[Maketh nods slowly.] I don't blame the woman who did this to me.

[Carrying a grudge won't help anything. She has to be objective about these things as best she can.]

[Maybe carrying a grudge for Rage-induced bullshit won't help, but holding a grudge for other shit someone has done? That's totally allowed.]

Whatever, she's still a bitch.

Perhaps. I wouldn't know. [Maketh lowers her mug slowly.] Oh. She was rude to you. On the network. I'd forgotten about that.

'Rude'? Seriously? So do you think Rage was just, like, giving us some anger management training? [HONESTLY, MAKETH.] That bitch is willfully ignorant. That's a level or ten beyond just 'rude'.

[Maketh hesitates.] No, I...I didn't mean that. I'm sorry. I'm not saying it right.

No, you're absolutely not. [Emily huffs.] At least you know when to stop and say you're sorry.

[It's not quite a compliment. Maketh drinks her coffee slowly, trying to parse her way around the situation. She always ends up feeling confused by Emily.] I'm trying.

[She hesitates.] Do you want to sit down?

[An invitation to sit means they're on the way to... maybe not friendship, but more than being acquintances (or people who fight with each other). And that's good and all, but there's no need to go straight from bitching at each other into heart-to-heart territory.

Besides, Emily doesn't have any coffee of her own right now, and like hell is she going to sit here and watch Maketh drink hers.]

No thanks. I'm gonna take this knife back and make myself some coffee of my own. [She pauses.] If you get healed in, like, a day or two, bring us back the cup.

[If not, she'll send Josh over or something.]

[That's probably for the best, because if Emily did stay, then Maketh would be obliged to fix her something - a coffee of her own - and that wouldn't end well for either of them. The coffee maker requires two hands at the best of times.

These are not the best of times.

But it's something. It's almost polite.

Maketh still isn't quite sure how that's happened. For a while she had assumed she'd spend a good deal of energy avoiding Emily after what had happened. Instead they've become...well, not friends, but something.

Civilians make no sense at all.]

I will. Thank you, Emily.

[It's not really fair to judge the rest of the world by how Emily acts, but it's not something Emily cares nearly enough about anyway. So she just shrugs, picking up the knife, relieved beyond measure that she didn't end up stabbing Rhys with it. Probably would've hurt like a motherfucker.]

No problem.

[She doesn't smile when she says that, and she offers a quick smirk as she heads out, leaving the brief moment of awkwardness behind.]

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