( she can't help but narrow her eyes, her eyebrows drawing together. she doesn't understand how homura can always be so cold, so detached - and at the same time, so superior. would it kill her to care about something?

would it kill her to be scared about this too? because sayaka is scared, and it galls that homura's lecture is correct, because it feels pretty sudden to sayaka: maybe not as much as last time, but enough that she can't just be an emotionless machine about it. (of course, she can't be like that about anything, really.)

so she raises her chin defiantly at the final challenge, because it's a very direct hit indeed. )

I never said that! What about you? ( she throws back, challenging her feelings if not her words. ) You really don't care about anything, do you? A normal person would care about turning into something else! A normal person - ( is not something she is anymore, is it? was she ever?

no. not that path again. her fingers dig into her skin. ) wouldn't put up some cold act and show up just to lecture me!