"Why are you acting like you're so much better than us? Have you even once looked at what we had to do just to keep up with you?" I spat out, my voice trembling with anger I couldn't hold back anymore. "Do you have any idea how many sleepless nights I've spent, how many hours I've trained until my body almost broke, just so I wouldn't slip even one rank? No—you don't, do you? You never even bothered to look. Because all you've ever done is look at yourself, thinking you're above it all, without a clue about what the rest of us were going through. And in the end, it's because you really just didn't give a damn."
Gabrielle let out a sharp scoff, the corners of her lips twitching into that familiar cold smirk.
"Well, you're right about that part," she shot back, her tone dripping with casual cruelty. "I couldn't really care less about someone who's beneath me."
