[Of course it could be true!, her presence seems to rail. Has she not been right more times than not, though she has been ridiculed and doubted by so many in her own faction for her stances and her words? It seemed that way to her, and yet still--]

You can diddle about with the definitions of words all you want, but you have two proper eyes and a working brain, do you not?

You know that is not what I mean.

[It swells again despite herself- the howling, bestial mass of roots that had stabbed into her and her companion's flesh, the glowing mass of forcefully, painfully fused together shards.]

Just because you are not human, you should be the one to risk becoming a mindless beast?

[There, how about that vocab word, then???]