( One could squint and see friendliness there. Sort of. If they held their head a certain way. Ella straightens her skirts, not that they need straightening, but it gives her hands something to do. )
Then again I might be resentful if I was only being kept around just to be thrown into the pot once I was fat enough.
( Thanks, Father. Gratefully, that's a metaphorical fire of marriage and one also she's... just had to ruthlessly ruin with the prince, but that's all part of the price necessary to pay for the greater good of the kingdom, and the man she loves. Unfortunately. Ella's smile falters, but evens out again a moment after. She steps back, out of range of the ostrich and its beak. )
You're a persistent thing, aren't you? Pull your head back in where it belongs, you'll get stuck like this, and what will the other birds have to say about it?
( Lecturing an ostrich while not exactly serious at all, she does have her hands both on her hips now. )
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( One could squint and see friendliness there. Sort of. If they held their head a certain way. Ella straightens her skirts, not that they need straightening, but it gives her hands something to do. )
Then again I might be resentful if I was only being kept around just to be thrown into the pot once I was fat enough.
( Thanks, Father. Gratefully, that's a metaphorical fire of marriage and one also she's... just had to ruthlessly ruin with the prince, but that's all part of the price necessary to pay for the greater good of the kingdom, and the man she loves. Unfortunately. Ella's smile falters, but evens out again a moment after. She steps back, out of range of the ostrich and its beak. )
You're a persistent thing, aren't you? Pull your head back in where it belongs, you'll get stuck like this, and what will the other birds have to say about it?
( Lecturing an ostrich while not exactly serious at all, she does have her hands both on her hips now. )