((Goooood job, Parker. You got Terenia to ramble incoherently. Bravo.

))
Terenia stares at The Director for a long moment with all four eyes before a loud, abrasive laugh erupts from her mind. She shakes her head in amusement, looking off towards the distant lights of the bar.
<It is truly amazing how thoroughly everyone misses the
point,> Terenia says and, depite her laughter, her voice is dark, <I am not at the finish line, as you say. If anything the work that the Andalites have done has only made the situation more hopeless. How will I ever convince my sister that she is better off away from the Empire now? She's probably convinced herself that I orchestrated the whole damned thing and just waiting for an opportunity to crawl back to them. Everyone here seems to think that just because she does not have a Yeerk in her head, just because she is not physically on an Imperial ship, she is free. She is saved. You understand
nothing.>
Terenia turns abruptly, walking away from The Director a bit before turning around and pacing back. She is working herself up into another rage, thinking out loud rather than addressing The Director.
<Of course it's selfish, dammit, but it's
my job to fix things. I'm the one that screwed them up to begin with. I don't pawn my problems off on other people, and I don't see why they feel the need to pick them up when they just don't get it. I can't protect her anymore, that much is obvious. She's useless now.> Terenia looks up, as though suddenly remembering that The Director is present.
<And as far as my host is concerned,> she adds contemptuously, <Why don't you try being in a good mood when you're being constantly harrassed by Andalite superiority. You make our staying together sound like a picnic under the stars.> she snorts, <Trust me, it is far from it. We need one another, but we sure as hell do not like one another.>