[At least Toph being blind means that Ethlyn gets to indulge in an urge that she knows is very adolescent herself: rolling her eyes. If stubbornness was electricity, Aldrip would be lit up all day and night just from this girl.]
Fine. It's just me being the town busybody, if you can't keep me out of your business, it's not because of any failing on your part.
[...god, she knows that if she tries to say this next thing, she might get shouted out of the forest and perhaps into a forest on a different isle, but... surely... there is some kind of tactful way to say this....]
...And if you want to grow up to be one of the hunters or the mercenaries who like to live rough, that's your prerogative [it's nooot, you're the daughter of a respectable family in town, but just for the sake of argument] but... you still have a few years before you could be considered old enough to really make that choice. Regardless of anything else.
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Fine. It's just me being the town busybody, if you can't keep me out of your business, it's not because of any failing on your part.
[...god, she knows that if she tries to say this next thing, she might get shouted out of the forest and perhaps into a forest on a different isle, but... surely... there is some kind of tactful way to say this....]
...And if you want to grow up to be one of the hunters or the mercenaries who like to live rough, that's your prerogative [it's nooot, you're the daughter of a respectable family in town, but just for the sake of argument] but... you still have a few years before you could be considered old enough to really make that choice. Regardless of anything else.