he has no idea how big of a landmine he just stepped on— she has to bite down hard on the inside of her cheek to trap the laugh that wants to claw its way out of her throat. yes, she'd intervened for her grandmother.
there hasn't been a moment since where she hasn't wished she hadn't. ]
... I intervened in both cases, though I wouldn't say I was successful either time. I was too late to do much for the latter aside from a brief attempt to repay in kind before I attended to the victim. ...No real alternate action could have been taken, given that it was the sudden act of a lone extremist; the only possible address was restitution rather than prevention.
[ her tone had already been deliberately detached— but here she pauses and takes a breath before switching to the kind of too-steady control that all but screams how very much it wouldn't be without significant effort going into it. ]
As for the first... it's enough to say that intervening made the situation far worse than it would have been otherwise. I... could have wished that they would have approached my grandmother in good faith and then listened to her, but... from what I remember of the incident their actions after that weren't incorrect.
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he has no idea how big of a landmine he just stepped on— she has to bite down hard on the inside of her cheek to trap the laugh that wants to claw its way out of her throat. yes, she'd intervened for her grandmother.
there hasn't been a moment since where she hasn't wished she hadn't. ]
... I intervened in both cases, though I wouldn't say I was successful either time. I was too late to do much for the latter aside from a brief attempt to repay in kind before I attended to the victim. ...No real alternate action could have been taken, given that it was the sudden act of a lone extremist; the only possible address was restitution rather than prevention.
[ her tone had already been deliberately detached— but here she pauses and takes a breath before switching to the kind of too-steady control that all but screams how very much it wouldn't be without significant effort going into it. ]
As for the first... it's enough to say that intervening made the situation far worse than it would have been otherwise. I... could have wished that they would have approached my grandmother in good faith and then listened to her, but... from what I remember of the incident their actions after that weren't incorrect.