It also gives Valerie the opportunity toshow off a bit of her new found active role.Going into the introduction of the new teacher and learning to dan...e isin part to deepen the chapter as comedic relief and lighten the moodafter the previous grave chapters.Chapter 17,is meant for the reader in part to show off how Valerie further startsto act on her own. On the other end, it is still mostly light-hearted.Chapter 18,starts on another big plot point to resolve. The decline of Bethany'saffection. " Be silent!" The day that it ceased being about leading Oceanus and became you clinging to power." Be silent! I will hear no more lies. I will not be fooled by your words, for your deeds speak far louder. I should have ... I..."His eyes widened. Several of the guards also glanced nervously behind them. Rithas simply turned his head calmly.Shouts of men and heavy footfalls through the main corridor drifted faintly to them. The sound rose in volume until the floor trembled from their hurried. . Then I blamed you Daddy. I don't know why, but one day I realized it wasn't my fault, it was yours! You'd abandoned me; you'd abandoned your only daughter!"He held me as I sobbed, simply enveloping me in his strong arms and drawing me into his warm body as my tears rolled onto his shirt. "You probably hate me, don't you?" I finally asked looking up into his forever welcoming eyes."I probably should," Daddy agreed, "but I do make some allowances for you, for your" For my what?" Your. The date of the last refill showed that she was taking them currently, the date of the prescription was before I ever had spoken to her, so she had probably been on them for some time. I sat on her couch again and looked through some of her art books, thinking through the implications of what I had learned about how she thought. When Violet came back, two hours or so after she had left, I looked up and said to her: ‘I’ve heard that you can learn a lot about a person by observing how they live,.