[ She's sure he doesn't mean it unkindly, but something about the way he says that makes her insides feel like they're crumpling up. It's one thing for a student to still be making mistakes like this, but Garnet's a grown woman. Shouldn't she be able to control this by now?
It'd certainly solve quite a lot of problems if she could.
But there's no point in dwelling on that now. No amount of fretting and angsting over it will do any good if she can't put in the effort to actually make some sort of difference. So instead of saying anything at all, she pulls in a breath and offers Figaro her hand.
She tries her best to pull back some of her magic to give him an easier time, but all that really happens is that her hand starts to feel cold and numb. ]
We've been making progress with this, at least...
[ Kind of. Sort of. They're making progress in the sense that it's not such a spectacular failure anymore, but Garnet will take her victories where she can get them. ]
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It'd certainly solve quite a lot of problems if she could.
But there's no point in dwelling on that now. No amount of fretting and angsting over it will do any good if she can't put in the effort to actually make some sort of difference. So instead of saying anything at all, she pulls in a breath and offers Figaro her hand.
She tries her best to pull back some of her magic to give him an easier time, but all that really happens is that her hand starts to feel cold and numb. ]
We've been making progress with this, at least...
[ Kind of. Sort of. They're making progress in the sense that it's not such a spectacular failure anymore, but Garnet will take her victories where she can get them. ]