"Rock head! Stone face! Stone, stone! You're made of stone from head to toe!"
Guizhong had come to a riverbank and kept picking up stones and hurling them into the water. The splashes seemed to give her an outlet for all the negative emotions inside her.
"Aaaaaaah! Stone, stone, stone, stone, stone!!!!!"
The more Guizhong thought about it, the angrier she became. She simply sat down on the ground, swinging both arms like a windmill as she tossed the stones around her into the river.
With her tearful face and furious frustration, she actually looked rather adorable.
Soon, Cloud Retainer came over.
"Still angry with the Geo Lord?" she asked.
Guizhong looked back at her, then turned away again and continued flinging the stones in her hands.
"He called me stupid..."
"And yes, it really was stupid."
"But this silly head of mine can't think of any other way to make him happy..."
As she kept throwing, her hands finally stopped. Her voice was full of hurt, tears glimmered in her eyes, and she seemed at a loss, unsure of what to do.
"For a Geo Lord who spends every day focused solely on protecting his people, it's only natural that he wouldn't understand such things."
"Don't be sad. Perhaps one day he'll suddenly catch on," Cloud Retainer comforted her, her heart aching a little.
"Hmph, waiting for him to catch on is as unrealistic as waiting for a stone to bloom. I'm not getting my hopes up!"
At Cloud Retainer's words, Guizhong voiced her disdain, though she was utterly unconvincing.
"Do you even believe that yourself?" Cloud Retainer exposed her without mercy.
"Anyway, I'm never doing this again. I don't care whether he's happy anymore. If he's unhappy, let him be unhappy. Stone face!"
Cloud Retainer merely smiled faintly