Time to step up

[a magical taco]

Richard had come into this conversation wearing a mask of normalcy to ensure he kept his emotions in check but he didn't need it. As angry as he was he could keep his emotions in check without it and so he dropped the spell. He had hoped Rebecca would respond to a plea for compassion but she was obviously to angry or his acting want good enough today. Fortunately, she had showed him her cards. She was angry at him for making a bad call but she was also feeling guilty for screwing up. He decided he would not yell at her, he would work on her guilt instead.

Richard kept his voice calm, “I am angry Rebecca. Your actions were so far beyond skewing up they bordered on betrayal. Maybe I should yell at you but that would only encourage you to yell back to make yourself feel better and you don't deserve to feel better and so I won't. I'm sorry for making a decision that made you uncomfortable. You are obviously not the most cunning of our cabal and I know that but your actions were appalling and completely void of anything that even resembled honor. And in hindsight, I'm glad I didn't give you an opportunity to answer the question of how YOU brought imbalance to the spirits in this area. You might have burned down the forest after an accusation like that.
I could have given you renown but none of us could have done better with that trail than Kira did not even me and I dare you to say otherwise.
So tell me Rebecca what makes you think I'm such a bad leader that you needed to show your ass like you did? Is it that I put my faith in you to take on the most difficult scenario? Or that I didn't trust my brother who has been missing for weeks and has returned a completely different person to take on what I thought would be the most difficult task? And might I add, returned to us incomplete, but sure let's test his limits when your sisters biggest personal quest is on the line so we don't make you uncomfortable. I mean she never asks us to do things Like this for her so why not shit on her the first time she does, that will teach her a lesson.”