That I've been unsympathetic during recent exchanges. I feel attacked and respond with distance. Yet her emotion is genuine.
Wishing that with effort I could learn to be more supportive, despite my considerable confusion, and my sense of offended justice.
"If I had the skill I'd draw a magic circle around her so perfect and so powerful that no evil and no harm could ever come near."
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