The silence is awkward, after that; stubbornly reluctant to leave moments after declaring her intent to do no such thing, Charles!!!! she is nevertheless unsure of where that leaves them, and how to follow it up. This is the point at which she'd ordinarily be plotting how to drop onto his shoulders from a great height and knock him to the ground, were the dispute with her brother (and were it prior to the incident where he tried to commit genocide), which-- never really achieved anything with Nuada and is unlikely to work here.

And besides, it's more of a long-term strategy than an immediate solution.

"I'm ought to be past temper tantrums," she says, eventually, in the tone of someone who is not terribly surprised to find that she isn't. It isn't an apology (she isn't sorry), it's just a silence needs filling.