Are you deaf, and none of us have known it this entire time?

I know that I told you not to show yourself before me until you learned to at least pretend to be more than some simpering girl crying neutrality and hiding behind a man.

And you obviously have not learned how to do that.

So how about you state the actual reason you have decided to risk your pretty little neck today?

[Because from where she's standing, it sort of seems like she really just wants to test her.]