Is it you, or is it what you stand for that he cannot stomach?
[There is a moment, a brief moment, where she exhales and closes her eyes. Something about this is all wrong; why would Ratonhnhaké:ton have cause to hate Haytham himself? Ziio has always been so careful to not speak ill of him before their son- if she ever spoke of him at all- what would cause him to hate his father himself? When it passes, she looks at him in askance, brown eyes clouded with confusion but her mouth drawn in a thin line.]
He has told me that your men have tried to take our land from our people, and what he has done he has done to protect us. Do you deny it?
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[There is a moment, a brief moment, where she exhales and closes her eyes. Something about this is all wrong; why would Ratonhnhaké:ton have cause to hate Haytham himself? Ziio has always been so careful to not speak ill of him before their son- if she ever spoke of him at all- what would cause him to hate his father himself? When it passes, she looks at him in askance, brown eyes clouded with confusion but her mouth drawn in a thin line.]
He has told me that your men have tried to take our land from our people, and what he has done he has done to protect us. Do you deny it?