❰ it's more annoying than anyone can possibly know — or remember, probably, given they're all so much older, the bastards — so much more annoying than any of them can remember, to be spoken to in this tone, with such patience and patronizing condescension. it's even more annoying to know that reacting based on that annoyance will just reinforce their ideas of her youth and what it means. it takes adalia a few moments to wrangle her frustration down so that she doesn't snap, and it occurs to her that she's probably grown more in thedas in a few months than she ever could have in toril.

it is not really a comforting thought. ❱

You would think a seven thousand year old king would have better control of his baser urges, ❰ is all she's going to say about that, biting her lip against the more petty "was he interrupted with his head between gwen's legs, she tells me he's fond of that". she doesn't really want to think about how much she knows of thranduil's sex life, okay. ❱

Would that he had directed his frustration onto someone more deserving, it might actually make me give a damn about his spirits and what state they're in.

❰ she's not whining, or pouting, or being in any way a child. however — ❱

All I did was ask if he had a plan.

❰ her tone is slightly higher-pitched. definitely not whining, though. ❱