#WordWeavers 9.25 — Your antagonist gives a spontaneous speech. What is it about? CW: Frank language. (MC POV)

Bolt rolled me through the hall toward the Residency, the wheelchair clicking on the regular tiles. She said, "And ya think ya know what she'll harangue you on, a?"

"Do I? She's pissed I forced her to recognize him as an ambassador to his people, people who've been our enemies for centuries, making him a citizen. She'll say," and I waved my leaden hands, flinging my blue blanket toward my knees with little energy, "'You're so weak-minded that you went and believed the first man who sticks his—'"

"Language!" Bolt said, then began cackling to herself. 

I didn't often swear, but I did love to cut off people who did by interrupting with that word... 

My face warmed as I realized what I was about to say, and that he had. That I might (and I mean /might/) be pregnant didn't make the situation better, either. And, he wasn't my first. Best maybe. "I demonstrated breaking his team leader's programming right in front of her eyes. Originally breaking his was accidental—" because I'd discovered I loved him "—the other two I accomplished because I understood what I'd done."

"Why migh' I doubt ya?" The day angel's right wing extended out before me, and a different primary feather warped upward as she ticked off, "His people invaded the week before? I fought em, remember? They infiltrated us? She can't believe you can deprogram in bulk? Might get yourself killed?"

I whispered, "Or that the deprogramming won't stick?" I sighed. "Nobody can read minds, tell if it worked... I get it, alright? This is why I made you captain of my guard."

"Not 'cause I'm cute? Or that I'm fast like lightning?" Bolt asked, stopping before the Director's door.

The Director started as rudely as I predicted, by the way.

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