Yes. No. Yes? What he said was something other people thought, and what has happened in- well I was thinking about certain moments in my life...
[ She's absolutely fidgeting her self into a little worried corner. ]
You see my mother despairs at me, she did not know what to do with a daughter like me. She is a stern woman. Compared to her, I am practically wild and feeling. Often she laments at my temperament, but never more than when I was coronated.
[ She swallows. ] She held my hands - and wondered if she had done the right thing, with how she raised me. Because... she could not bear to beat me like her father had done to her, to make her strong. And... perhaps she should have.
[ breathes out. There. She started it. ]
Murphy said that it was a cruel thing to say, and that is not how children should be raised, to be beaten or even to be threatened with it.
cw: unhealthy families and child abuse hereafter basically
[ She's absolutely fidgeting her self into a little worried corner. ]
You see my mother despairs at me, she did not know what to do with a daughter like me. She is a stern woman. Compared to her, I am practically wild and feeling. Often she laments at my temperament, but never more than when I was coronated.
[ She swallows. ] She held my hands - and wondered if she had done the right thing, with how she raised me. Because... she could not bear to beat me like her father had done to her, to make her strong. And... perhaps she should have.
[ breathes out. There. She started it. ]
Murphy said that it was a cruel thing to say, and that is not how children should be raised, to be beaten or even to be threatened with it.
Is... is that right?