"Oh, you do care," Alodia drawls, voice low and very cold. "I appreciate the reassurance, since from where I'm standing, it's been pretty hard to tell, the last few weeks."
She rolls her eyes. "And how long you've technically known James isn't remotely the point here, Moira, don't be intentionally dense."
"But of course, you're the only one who's been going through a lot of shit." She intentionally threads a mocking tone through the words. Maybe she doesn't understand what Moira's been going through, but she's seen what her other cousins are going through, and they've had it worse. Moira didn't see the look on Aoife's face when she asked what she was if not her mother's daughter; she sure as hell doesn't get to be self-righteous about it now. "How silly of me to forget. You know, it's almost funny how the person who's barely spoken to her mother in ages and has been convinced she's evil for years is the one who couldn't cope when the truth came out, while the people who were much closer to her and have much more of a reason to worry about becoming her stuck around and tried their best to look out for each other."
"Then again," and maybe this is crossing a line, but Alodia's hurting and all she wants in this moment is to make Moira hurt just as badly. If her cousin's thinking straight, she'll know it for the ploy it is, but Alodia rather doubts Moira's thinking straight right now. In fact, part of her is counting on exactly the opposite. "Then again, maybe they actually aren't the ones who should be worried about turning into Violet. You needed to leave because you don't want to end up like her, but treating family like they're expendable, disappearing with no concern for anyone else's feelings, leaving people you're supposed to look out for to go through hell on their own..."
She gives a hollow sort of laugh. "You said it yourself, Moira: that's exactly the sort of stunt your mother would pull."
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She rolls her eyes. "And how long you've technically known James isn't remotely the point here, Moira, don't be intentionally dense."
"But of course, you're the only one who's been going through a lot of shit." She intentionally threads a mocking tone through the words. Maybe she doesn't understand what Moira's been going through, but she's seen what her other cousins are going through, and they've had it worse. Moira didn't see the look on Aoife's face when she asked what she was if not her mother's daughter; she sure as hell doesn't get to be self-righteous about it now. "How silly of me to forget. You know, it's almost funny how the person who's barely spoken to her mother in ages and has been convinced she's evil for years is the one who couldn't cope when the truth came out, while the people who were much closer to her and have much more of a reason to worry about becoming her stuck around and tried their best to look out for each other."
"Then again," and maybe this is crossing a line, but Alodia's hurting and all she wants in this moment is to make Moira hurt just as badly. If her cousin's thinking straight, she'll know it for the ploy it is, but Alodia rather doubts Moira's thinking straight right now. In fact, part of her is counting on exactly the opposite. "Then again, maybe they actually aren't the ones who should be worried about turning into Violet. You needed to leave because you don't want to end up like her, but treating family like they're expendable, disappearing with no concern for anyone else's feelings, leaving people you're supposed to look out for to go through hell on their own..."
She gives a hollow sort of laugh. "You said it yourself, Moira: that's exactly the sort of stunt your mother would pull."