LUCIEN

I stand on the other side of the door with it already shut in my face. "You have to come down for breakfast," I call into the huge wooden door.

"I don't want breakfast," she calls back to me.

"Are you sure? You did not have anything to eat last night, and this morning as well."

"I can't sit at the same table with you right now."

"Are you saying if I am not sitting at the table with you, then you'll come down to eat breakfast?"

"I am not saying it, but I can appreciate it." I don't know ...