Nor did you deserve your capture. I dearly wish that you could have avoided such an arbitrary judgement.

[ Whatever she thinks of everything that occurred a few days prior, nobody here deserves such a bizarre torture. ...But there is still the future to consider, and she has fortunately been allowed to remember that. So little she can do, but little is more than nothing.

What little she may.

Vanessa rises just long enough to sit a bit closer, still on the edge, but readied to catch a cup should it ever tip for any reason. ]

Should you have been 'punished' at all, then? ...What do you believe you deserve?