"You know what; you can find someone else to do your dirty work! I'm
sick of being treated like an idiot!"
"You are an idiot!"
"Bit rich coming from the woman who cursed a whole bloody house and a load of innocents 'cause her husband found someone better!"
Slap.
"How dare you even- I ought to kill you right now!"
"Well go on then, I've got nothing else to live for!"
Her face turned red with anger, and she raised her hand as if to strike me
again.
I closed my one eye, ready to take the hit, pleasantly surprised when it never came.
"You know, Dio, there are punishments worse than death," she sighed, playing
with a blade in the palm of her hand, "and I still have hope for you yet."
She turned on her heels and left me there, in the room, all alone.
A hundred times more confused than I'd ever been before.