Ciri sulked in the backseat of the car, listening to the answer. She wasn't keen on this. She didn't need to meet these people TODAY of all days. There would be other possibilities, after all. And the way she said "kids" just made Ciri cringe. She wasn't a kid anymore, after all, but a young woman. And this just underlined how massively unfair it all was that she was being dragged along like this.
She was about to answer when she heard "that tone", which instantly made her pause. The last time she had heard it was....
Well, that was a long time ago and she's much too old for that now, but the tone still made her stop.
Instead of answering, she just rolled her eyes and let out a "....whatever..."
Well, if she couldn't SAY anything, she was definitely going to SHOW that she didn't want to be there.
So she took out her phone, demonstrably holding it up in front of her face unlike normally where she'd have it in her lap, so that it was plain that she was NOT there mentally but only physically, tapping slightly harder than she had to, in order to make it audible, as well, that she didn't want to be there. Once she had done that long enough - she'd written a few messages to some of her friends, and to Lukas - she put her phone back in the pocket of her jeans and groaned audibly again as if she was being asked to climb Mount Sněžka with one hand tied around her back, and NOT simply accompanying them to a family visit, before she leaned back in her seat.
"When are we gonna be there?", she said, in a tone that said without saying it "so we can get this overwith". While she didn't say the last part out loud...she definitely thought it.
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