Celine's rebuke kept Persephone silent and small. Mother or not, the woman was just intimidating.
"Persephone Apollonia, I know that man," her mother obviously referring to Samson, "Does, and will do, anything you tell him. So I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was your idea to invade my personal space. You are also fully knowledgeable about the complexity and demanding nature of my schedule on a 'normal' day. You are also fully aware that these last have been anything but 'normal' days. You are also fully aware that I am light headed and uncomfortable from substantial loss of blood so recently. This coincidentally is probably why at every scheduled, and now impromptu, event I have attended over the last twenty four hours there has been food service of some kind. You are also
