<span style="color: #ff0000">"and? schematics and books do not make an engineer anymore then a book on cannibalism makes one a Troll. there is something inside that drives one to experiment, to tinker and fiddle with things. it takes ingenuity and a sense of how machines work."</span>she watched the display and shook her head.<span style="color: #ff0000">"that is just following instructions, its not inventing."</span><br/><br/>Anna shook her head and crossed her arms.<span style="color: #0080ff">"you are arguing with your mother is what you are doing. i don't care how 'real' you can make your fake food, you cannot conjure the love and care i put into each meal. you cannot copy my experience and my flare for making each meal according to my mood and the moods of those i am cooking for. if you could conjure those things you wouldn't want me to hug you and sing to you because you could just make fake arms to hold you and a fake voice to sing to you."</span><br/><br/>Relene didn't speak for several minutes and even when she did she didn't turn and there was something wrong with her voice though he wouldn't know what. "are you as stupid as Muse? if i wanted company i wouldn't have gone out of my way to find empty rooms far from everyone else. the only person who wanted me around is Amber but even she is too busy for me now so i have gotten out of the way of everyone's life... just like they want." she finally turned and her face was horribly burnt in the pattern of her own hands and her eyes had been seared shut. her burnt mouth was twisted in disgust and she spit in his direction. "I'm sorry... I'm sorry... all i ever hear from you is that you are sorry... you never listen do you? i told you not to play with me in cities! is Eru treehouse Darnassus? no. there are no guards there that fear and worship me in Eru's treehouse. i don't have to act like a proper little Demigoddess in Eru's treehouse, i can just be me. but does my idiot father actually listen to anything i say? no, no he doesn't. i told you to keep your useless apologies to yourself a dozen times now and yet you come offering them to me like precious gems again. fuck your apologies!" when she yelled smoke that smelled of sulfur and brimstone poured from her mouth. "i wish i could hate you... hate is so much easier, i hate Muse and Sahra and they cannot hurt me. but you can, and i cannot make you stop hurting me." she stood up and despite her blindness she walked quite steadily as she got right in Ras' face, the burns all too clear now. "this is what love has done to me! i can't even cry anymore... my tears burnt my face and when i tried to stop them my own hands burned my eyes shut!"<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>