She's not inclined to trust that any orders she's given are going to be justified ones. Everybody thinks they're giving good commands, unless they're deliberately giving bad ones. It doesn't mean they really are.
Just tell her what you want. She probably thinks you're planning to question her every time she asks you to do her a favour. That'd be a waste of the countess' time and her own. And as she hasn't yet landed herself in hot water for misspeaking in front of an aristocrat, she thinks she might as well.
"I won't kill anyone for you," she says, her gaze still level with the countess' face, "unless they really deserve it."
Maybe in another setting, it'd be funny--at the very least, bemusing. But Beth's serious as a heart attack. This isn't going to go the way it did with Dawn, clinging to her against the hospital's violence and getting drawn into the center of it as a result.
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Just tell her what you want. She probably thinks you're planning to question her every time she asks you to do her a favour. That'd be a waste of the countess' time and her own. And as she hasn't yet landed herself in hot water for misspeaking in front of an aristocrat, she thinks she might as well.
"I won't kill anyone for you," she says, her gaze still level with the countess' face, "unless they really deserve it."
Maybe in another setting, it'd be funny--at the very least, bemusing. But Beth's serious as a heart attack. This isn't going to go the way it did with Dawn, clinging to her against the hospital's violence and getting drawn into the center of it as a result.