At first she was too relieved to no longer be staring death by homicidal professor in the face to wonder where Odette had taken them. Then she pulled herself off the ground and noticed that Odette wasn't there.
Then she noticed that she had no flipping clue where she was.
"Yeah, there's a difference between, 'not have to believe in' and 'not believe in', I think."
"Indeed.
For a while after he'd been captured Maedhros' brothers pretended to themselves he was dead and I was very frustrated with them."
"Then I went and got him and I think they more than punished themselves enough for not having done it, and I regretted everything I'd said to them in that frustration."
"Funnily enough, people who are thrown into extremely unpleasant high-stakes situations under pressure tend to do things they'll regret later."
"It's a good tendency to conquer before you command the lives of others."
"Hmm. Notice it, get better at not saying things when angry in general. Fix them when they do, even if you don't regret them."
"That sounds like it would ameliorate the problem, but not necessarily fix it. I'm not sure the general problem, at least as I stated it, can be fixed."
"I know a lot of people whose judgment I trust even under tremendous pressure. I think it can, just the practice is often too costly."
"I think part of the problem isn't judgement but rather the fact that when you're in a situation like that sometimes you just plain don't have enough information to know what's going to turn out to be regrettable but at that point maybe I'm just being pedantic."
"Oh, all the big regrettable mistakes that come to my mind were predictably so."
"Oh, I imagine. The architecture of your flying city must be amazing."
"...Our buildings are mostly not made of gemstone. Gems are usually transparent or translucent and people value privacy."
"Well, you've got a--template. It's all the same thing. Rocks aren't homogeneous mixtures, after all."
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