Oh, she didn't leave us, she led us. She believed, because she didn't fucking bother asking what happens when you fall through a rift, that leaping through would naturally return her precisely where she left.
( 'like an idiot', her tone implies, but don't worry that she's not going to be sufficiently explicit on the matter: )
Because she's a fucking idiot.
It was... ( a grimace. they're out now. that's what matters. it wasn't an experience she's keen to rehash and the exact mechanics of how they leave haven't been settled on, but she's not done being angry about it. and probably won't be for some time. )
It's happened before. Not on purpose, not because of some inconsiderate cunt failing to think before she puts one foot in the other, but—Maker, years ago now. Thranduil was there, I want to say they were in the Western Approach. Physically in the Fade, like the Herald. All she had to do was ask someone. What happens when you do that is on record.
[ This is where, if she thought worse of her companion or was trying to needle them, she would say something akin to 'she could not have led if you had not followed', but neither case is true. As cross as Gwen is about it, surely if there had been another route to take she would have done so. Letting fools pull their own lever at the gallows is not something Lexie knows her friend to stint on. ]
There are ever people [ stubborn Queens (herself, if she were being honest, but she isn't), ] who when you assure them a thing has been tried and cannot be done, they simply assume it failed because you did not have them the first time.
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( 'like an idiot', her tone implies, but don't worry that she's not going to be sufficiently explicit on the matter: )
Because she's a fucking idiot.
It was... ( a grimace. they're out now. that's what matters. it wasn't an experience she's keen to rehash
and the exact mechanics of how they leave haven't been settled on, but she's not done being angry about it. and probably won't be for some time. )It's happened before. Not on purpose, not because of some inconsiderate cunt failing to think before she puts one foot in the other, but—Maker, years ago now. Thranduil was there, I want to say they were in the Western Approach. Physically in the Fade, like the Herald. All she had to do was ask someone. What happens when you do that is on record.
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There are ever people [ stubborn Queens (herself, if she were being honest, but she isn't), ] who when you assure them a thing has been tried and cannot be done, they simply assume it failed because you did not have them the first time.