Amalia had wanted to stop this conversation a long time ago, even before it began. She would have let it go too, except for the fact that Leia had pressed on and wanted to hear Amalia's side of things.
"None of this can be worked out through words. It would only frustrate us to attempt to do so..."
Amalia thought the same as Leia did, probably even before Leia had thought of it herself. Amalia knew this and believed this from the very beginning, when Leia had asked her to speak up. Amalia knew what her words would do, even before she spoke them, but she realized that it wasn't fair to keep them from Leia so she had spoken. Now, now she was done with what she had needed to say and she didn't want to say it anymore.
A friend, by definition was near the same as Leia's definition. No, they weren't the same, but they valued similar qualities in a friend. That is and was part of what made them friends.
She finally turned to look back at Leia, her face expressionless.
"You know why I'm afraid, you've figured that out...but do you know why I backoff?"
It was Amalia's own turn to raise a hand and stop Leia in response.
"Believe it or not, I've already stated so, in the words I've already spoken.."
She nodded her head once.
"..But you're right, no more words will do. Frankly, I'm tired of the words because they bring only frustration, for the both of us, and I don't want that. You asked me to speak, I have. I probably would not have spoken up unless you asked me to, because I already knew the frustration would come, so I didn't want to speak. I have and now I'm done, now it's time to move on from this discussion."
She went quiet, still looking at Leia, as if waiting for her to speak or do something. She wanted to move on, she had said her peace, Leia had said hers. Nothing more could be done really, anyway, except to just move on. Leia had still said nothing, so Amalia decided to speak.
"The day is just beginning..and we could be doing lots of other things..."
She looked at Leia's plate, seeing that it was still a full plate.
"Besides pick at our food, which we pretend to like.."
She smiled lightly looking down at the bowl of fruit.
"I wonder what the head of state would do if I ran off with her bowl of fruit, leaving her with nothing except for that plate she has before her."
She laughed then, sitting back in her chair.
"You'd probably just get another bowl of fruit, and I...well, I'm guessing it wouldn't be so pretty, considering I stole the head of state's bowl of fruit."
She smiled, pushed the bowl of fruit toward Leia. She frowned a little.
"I could have and should have...just for fun.."
She grinned, thinking back to when they were near the waterfall, letting Leia read her thoughts as she thought back to then.
"...Head of state...suuuuure...."
She grinned once again, knowing fully well she could have got away with that then. Her grin only grew when she saw the look upon Leia's face, she seemed not to be all to well taken with Amalia right then and there.
Amalia only grinned, pretending not to know what that look meant.
"..What?!.....What????..."
