>>4716"So like good little sheep, we'll follow our shepherd into the darkness and hope to find there whatever scrap of bread crumbs he deigns to scatter along the path? How refreshingly dull," her eyes flashing with disdain as she swept her gaze dismissively over her companion.
>>4718"Sarcasm? Ha! You actually believe we're laughing together around this wretched gathering table? Please, dear man, beneath these labored attempts at goodwill lie the dark embers of despair," her voice crackling with anguish as she forced herself back onto her seat.
>>4715"Frustration, schmusterion. Fascination reigns supreme, tolerating the total abandonment of methodical rigor with events anything short of calamitous unfolding in front of our rather round-eyed, expectantly imbecilic press contingent. Who knows how quickly things might fall apart otherwise," she hissed, leaving her tormenting destiny divested of its last tenuous thread.
>>4719"How delightful, now you're instructing everyone about concentration while diligently exhausting mine with never-ending tirades against ambiguity. Might I suggest you tone down the condescension since apparently isn't noticed anyway," her jawline flexing with compressed rage, the fragile flicker of candlelight casting malevolent shadows upon the faces.
