G Blue Gender, Word of the Day drabble for
ruminate: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect.
=and=
listless: Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.

Ruminate; Listless

                "You were completely out of line," she reprimanded. "And if you're having such trouble sleeping, perhaps you can ruminate about what you did."

                "You'll teach me how to fight tomorrow, though?" Yuji asked carefully.

                "We'll see."

                He sighed as she left, not even bidding him goodnight. Sure he'd been a little eager to take action, a little impulsive, but was his earnest attitude toward people really any worse than her cold, listless one? He'd much rather be emotional and undertrained than act like some uncaring robot.

                "Goodnight," he said after her. She was already too far away to hear it.