Pretty sure it would make the situation worse if I did, [Dixon mumbles, looking a little abashed. And then she goes spilling her pent up frustration-
-no, frustration is too mild a word for whatever she's feeling. Frustration is when you can't get the shower dial to the right temperature. Frustration is being stuck at a red light when you're running late. Frustration is a small word for small problems that can be shrugged off twenty minutes later, transgressions not even forgiven but straight-up forgotten.
What Dixon just got the slightest taste of was the rage that comes from grief, and that is common ground that hits him like a fist to the gut. He's quiet a moment. he stares at the grass.]
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Pretty sure it would make the situation worse if I did, [Dixon mumbles, looking a little abashed. And then she goes spilling her pent up frustration-
-no, frustration is too mild a word for whatever she's feeling. Frustration is when you can't get the shower dial to the right temperature. Frustration is being stuck at a red light when you're running late. Frustration is a small word for small problems that can be shrugged off twenty minutes later, transgressions not even forgiven but straight-up forgotten.
What Dixon just got the slightest taste of was the rage that comes from grief, and that is common ground that hits him like a fist to the gut. He's quiet a moment. he stares at the grass.]
I'm sorry.