[This time she gets the word out a lot more clearly. However it also has the misfortune of making her anger just as clear too. It's not directed at Ruby. Not really anyway. She's mostly angry at herself because she still can't seem to get a handle on those stupid flashbacks. At least she seems to realize her mistake a moment later as she takes a deep breath to try to calm herself, speaking in extremely measured sentences.]
Just...listen to me. Wh-whatever that was. Whatever you saw. It...It didn't happen like that, Ruby. ...I-it was just a bad dream.
[It had to be. There was no other explanation for Ruby remembering something that vivid, short of a nightmare.]
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Date: 2017-08-26 12:11 pm (UTC)[This time she gets the word out a lot more clearly. However it also has the misfortune of making her anger just as clear too. It's not directed at Ruby. Not really anyway. She's mostly angry at herself because she still can't seem to get a handle on those stupid flashbacks. At least she seems to realize her mistake a moment later as she takes a deep breath to try to calm herself, speaking in extremely measured sentences.]
Just...listen to me. Wh-whatever that was. Whatever you saw. It...It didn't happen like that, Ruby. ...I-it was just a bad dream.
[It had to be. There was no other explanation for Ruby remembering something that vivid, short of a nightmare.]