[ It's just like her to start an answer and then stop to take a few steps back away from the shoreline so that she can try to rub the wet sand from sticking to the bottom of her boots, only it just results in getting sand everywhere. On her hands, around her ankles. She claps her palms together in a last attempt to be rid of it. ]
I gave you a chance. But I was protecting someone else.
[ She turns to him then, smiling with a secret behind her eyes that she expects him to share. You know. ]
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[ It's just like her to start an answer and then stop to take a few steps back away from the shoreline so that she can try to rub the wet sand from sticking to the bottom of her boots, only it just results in getting sand everywhere. On her hands, around her ankles. She claps her palms together in a last attempt to be rid of it. ]
I gave you a chance. But I was protecting someone else.
[ She turns to him then, smiling with a secret behind her eyes that she expects him to share. You know. ]