"So what, her strategy was to, like, force the issue until you just resigned and agreed?" Annie asked, frowning. (A tiny, tiny part of her was a little jealous, but that was neither constructive or very mature of her, so she'd just work that out in the gym later.) "I'm glad you were able to talk to her at the end there. She seems -- confused? Is that the word I want? It feels so condescending, but...."

But not like she was a bad person. Just someone who was maybe even more mixed up about her emotions and how to actually express them than the Hargreeves were.