_{[She sits up a little, finally peeling away a bit from the lawyer's side, drawing in a deep breath and turning her head to wipe her cheek off on one of her shoulders.]}

Sorry... didn't mean to add to the holiday stress...

_{[She doesn't feel ashamed of having needed a shoulder to cry on-- she knows it's only human. But being a little embarrassed about it is human, too, and she ain't immune to it. Especially since Phoenix had probably seen her like this a lot more than she really cared to display to any one person.]}

I promise, I w-won't make a habit of this... d-despite evidence to the contrary, I don't actually freak out and cry buckets all over people like a depressed Looney Tune often...

_{[That self-deprecating tone that always lay in her voice (even when she was bragging, half the time) was back. At the very least, maybe it would be a relief to Phoenix to see that despite the obvious hurting that she was still going through, she hadn't lost her snark.]}