This particular eight year old's brain doesn't have the juice, at this particular time, to follow or care much about the way labels evolve and get lost and become codewords in and of themselves. She was sorta aware at the time that there was a...an understanding competition going on, where people were doing their best to get answers while giving away the least amount of information, but Triss couldn't keep track of who was winning. She's always preferred the 'sit and wait in stubborn silence' approach (which worked: they brought her home when she wouldn't talk to them, so who won that round, huh??</>?) and once they realized she was an 'Allomancer' too they'd been pretty willing to talk to her.
So really it's the last part that makes her cross her arms and scrunch up her face, her jaw jutting forward. What Hannibal said was pretty rude, and that's bad on its own, but the real reason he said it--
"But you didn't know when you called 'em names!" she says, high and angrily shrill, "You din't know what they could do at all but you knew I was like 'em and you know what I did so--so--!"
Triss has never been the greatest about following a thought down a coherent path even at the best of times, which this is not. This one branches off in too many possible directions: so they could've destroyed the house much easier than she had a whole church, so why would you mess with a buncha telepaths on purpose anyway, so they don't know enough about Triss' abilities to know what other non-house-destroying stuff Allomancers can even do, so that was really risky and pretty dumb and very scary but most of all totally unnecessary.
Her glare intensifies with the sheer volume of all those so's swelling her brain, her eyes burn with--no, not tears again. Triss blinks and scowls and somehow settles on "So that was dumb."
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Date: 2016-07-24 06:41 am (UTC)So really it's the last part that makes her cross her arms and scrunch up her face, her jaw jutting forward. What Hannibal said was pretty rude, and that's bad on its own, but the real reason he said it--
"But you didn't know when you called 'em names!" she says, high and angrily shrill, "You din't know what they could do at all but you knew I was like 'em and you know what I did so--so--!"
Triss has never been the greatest about following a thought down a coherent path even at the best of times, which this is not. This one branches off in too many possible directions: so they could've destroyed the house much easier than she had a whole church, so why would you mess with a buncha telepaths on purpose anyway, so they don't know enough about Triss' abilities to know what other non-house-destroying stuff Allomancers can even do, so that was really risky and pretty dumb and very scary but most of all totally unnecessary.
Her glare intensifies with the sheer volume of all those so's swelling her brain, her eyes burn with--no, not tears again. Triss blinks and scowls and somehow settles on "So that was dumb."