Veli: God, she's right, isn't she?
Veli: Mmhmm.
Veli: I've been running Reese into the ground, she's not... she's usually so energetic and... gods above, what have I been doing?
Veli: ...Please don't answer that.
Veli: No, no, you asked, it would be rude to ignore you. What you've been doing is wasting your time. Why are you even going to the mills? Poachers are everywhere, no one cares if you visit the forest twice a week. Hell, they wouldn't care if you went every other day.
Veli: Yeah, and thin out the population. That sounds like a great idea.
Veli: Thin out the population my ass. There's a fucking city on the other side of this forest. If anyone's gonna thin out the population, it's them.
Veli: It's still not allowed. I could be executed. Then what?
Veli: You won't be executed.
Veli: Yeah, sure. Let's just demean ourselves to thievery right after we condemned our sister for doing the same.
Veli: Uh, no, you condemned her. I am calling you out for it. You need to go home, apologize, tell her not to work tomorrow, and get yourself out on a hunt.
Veli: ...It's not right. It's the king's land.
Veli: You know what? You want to stick to your morals? Fine. Work yourself to death at the mills. The fact of the matter is, after work, nearly every day, you go and see Selice while she goes home and helps our mother. “Oh! But we get up earlier than her every day!” Yeah, sure you do, you're also not ten years old. And then, and here's the best part, after your day of oh such hard work that you've inflicted on yourself for reasons that really don't make sense, you have the audacity to get on her case, and bitch about her behind her back, your SISTER, when really YOU are the problem here. You always have been, from the veeeeeery beginning. You know how father looked at you. You know how he-
