Practical. [It's as much a 'correction' as it may be a refutation.] The details are inconsequential. What good would it do for you, to know how quickly some of us agreed to the terms given? [She was among the first herself, after all, so she hardly had to deal with any consequences that resistance entailed.
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This isn't about her, and she can't let him turn the conversation until it is. As she's said herself, the details are inconsequential. She's not expecting anything, personally, but it wouldn't serve any ends to tell him that. The whip cracks again, this time with a target: she intends to have it snap and wrap around the very wrist he was using to gesture so animatedly a moment ago, and reign him in before he's had any chance to react. These whips were somehow capable of subduing their willpower upon being first discovered and tied up by the soldiers, but she doesn't intend to employ them any differently than how normal whips are traditionally used. What they look and represent to those who were once placed under their mercy before was the important part, and she plans to take full advantage of that.]
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This isn't about her, and she can't let him turn the conversation until it is. As she's said herself, the details are inconsequential. She's not expecting anything, personally, but it wouldn't serve any ends to tell him that. The whip cracks again, this time with a target: she intends to have it snap and wrap around the very wrist he was using to gesture so animatedly a moment ago, and reign him in before he's had any chance to react. These whips were somehow capable of subduing their willpower upon being first discovered and tied up by the soldiers, but she doesn't intend to employ them any differently than how normal whips are traditionally used. What they look and represent to those who were once placed under their mercy before was the important part, and she plans to take full advantage of that.]