Everyone stopped talking and stared at her as if she'd done
something unconscionable. The pronouncement hovered, rippling in
the air long after she'd closed her mouth. It was brash, perhaps,
but the words had escaped with unstoppable certainty,
a bold assertion which refused to be challenged.
They all stood in silence, indefinitely fixed
on this public act of self-defense.
It was her first.
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