You'd be an artiste too, if you'd been in solitary confinement with nothing else to do, she thinks of saying, but it really doesn't help her case. It's beyond frustrating to take this. Back home, she'd been somebody. She'd mattered, at least enough to get a little respect. Here, she has some guy giving her lip over a drawing. It's like she's back to the beginning all over again, when everyone laughed at her instead of listening. The beginning isn't a fun place to be.

"What do you want, an apology?" It's clear she thinks it's ridiculous. "Fine. I'm sorry. I'll make sure to keep you out of all my drawings."

It would have sounded more sincere had she not been so huffy about it. As it is, it's more like a kid being forced to apologize to their sibling. "You have my picture. We're even."