[@antarctic termite] [@LMPKIO] Mergoux stops, sighs, takes of her helmet and looks at Smudge. "You don't look like any girl I've ever seen, but that's not the point..." She sighs again and looks at Smudge more...gently. Her glare is gone, but she still frowns "I'm... sorry..." Smudges burrowing eyes sense a great level of repressed anger, bitterness and pain. Suddenly however she snaps and walks right up to Smudge. She doesn't lay a hand on her, or do anything threatening, but snarls at her in fury. "Don't you [i]dare[/i] say you know what it's like to be treated like sh*t around me! Why do you think I wear the fething helmet!? It's because I'm a bloody Half-Elf! It's because I've got to appear human!" She would go on but is too angry to, instead she just turns and looks away from Smudge, clenching and unclenching her fists