Keeping her gaze locked with Alfred's for a few moments, Charlotte sighed quietly and shook her head lightly, a small frown tugging the corners of her lips downward. "Alfred, I can't. Despite all of the horrible things people have done to me in the past and continue to do to me, I can't bring myself to hate anyone. I can strongly dislike someone, but I can't go as far as hating someone. Though it's extremely hard sometimes, I desperately want to believe that there's a shred of goodness in everyone, even if it's the size of a grain of sand," she said quietly, choosing not to respond to the little tidbit about her being strong. Her, strong? No, that wasn't a valid statement. The girl only had mental strength to offer, but not physical strength. The only thing she was good for was coming up with complex plans and strategies, talk people out of doing things, and sometimes outsmart people. But maybe that's what he was referring to. If anyone could outsmart the second players or talk them down, it would be her... she would just have to figure out how. If that's what he was trying to get at, then he was right. Most of the second players seemed to just be huge brutes that lacked a proper thought process, or they just didn't have that much common sense. She, on the other hand, was one of the most intelligent people you'd ever meet, and though she had no backbone and low self esteem, she had confidence in herself that she could outsmart them somehow. Hence why she was being submissive and staying quiet - she wouldn't get anywhere if she acted without thinking of the consequences. Shaking her head a bit to dismiss her thoughts, she slowly turned her attention towards Allen. "Oh, uh... okay..." she trailed off quietly. The light brown haired girl listened to his next comment and shook her head, unable to believe him on that one. Of course, some of her friends have been through hell and back multiple times, and she knew that a couple of them would never break. Allen may have a lot of experience with getting information out of people, but her friends were stubborn, and they'd never talk. "I don't know, though. Most of them have way more of a backbone than I do, and they're less likely to crack, due to how stubborn they are..." she said in a very hushed tone, sighing quietly. Though it may be true, in the back of her mind, she knew that if some of them were threatened with one of their close friends, they'd snap and spill the information the second players wanted. Pushing those thoughts aside, she couldn't ignore the pain of her bruises and cuts any longer, and she looked like all she wanted was to crawl into a hole and die, since the rough handling she had received from Allen didn't help one bit. Glancing up at him hesitantly with her hazel eyes, she noticed that he seemed hesitant himself when he nodded in response to his apology. The American probably wasn't used to one of his prisoners apologizing to him and treating him like a decent human being, but she was trying to get on his good side. Anyways, she really did feel remorse for acting so awfully earlier, and she was sorry for her actions. Charlotte turned her gaze back down towards the floor, once again feeling like dirt. I should be used to feeling like dirt by now after years of people being awful to me... so why does it still take such a toll on my emotions? she thought sadly. Knowing that she couldn't do anything to break up what was going on between one of her closest friends and the hostile second player, she merely stood off to the side, trying not to cry as she kept her gaze glued to the floor. To be quite honest, she looked like a kicked, neglected puppy - both from the fact that she was about to cry, and all of the bruises and cuts littering her skin in various places. Now, all she really wanted to do was curl up into a ball and disappear, but she knew that was impossible. So without any further thoughts, she let herself start to cry again, shaking her head slightly as she did so. Josepine's response to Ella, however, kind of flared her emotions even more, so she lifted her tear-filled eyes to stare at her and Allen. "Did you just ignore everything she had to say or something?" she asked, raising her tone slightly as her voice shook like a leaf. "It doesn't matter why you guys were told to do this, and what your objectives are. I know you guys are protecting each other, and I have no clue what you guys go through each and every day, but it does not justify what you're doing to us! There's other ways to go about getting information from people, and this is not an accepted solution. You can't think that this is okay in the slightest bit. I don't know about everyone else, but if I were you guys, I wouldn't be able to live with myself for doing this to people that have no idea what you want, why they're here or anything like that. A lot of us would never stoop so low as to capture people and... and abuse them for information - I know I wouldn't. But it's hard not to take any of this to heart, because... Jesus Christ, just look at us. I desperately want to believe that you're all good people at heart, but it's so difficult when you guys treated me like a ragdoll while I was unconscious, and I feel more like a piece of dirt now than I have in my entire life. And believe me when I say this, I've felt like dirt my entire life, and I'm dead inside because of how people have treated me over the years. Seriously though, look at me. I'm crying like a child, and my entire body is covered with bruises and cuts. My friends are getting hurt because of you guys, too, and some of us are probably horrified whether they're showing it or not - myself included. This is just... so wrong!" she said, her voice shaking like a leaf the entire time due to how afraid she was for trying to get her point across and how much she was crying now. Like she did from time to time, she had slipped into a slight, barely there but still noticeable Canadian accent from how worked up and emotional she was getting. Lifting her hands up to her face, she hastily wiped away her tears, her hands shaking as she did so. It was pointless, though - she wasn't able to stop crying now that thoughts about how people treated her in the past resurfaced, and she was no longer able to hide how terrified she was. The light brown haired girl looked and felt so broken, and she could only hope that it would spark some kind of sympathy in one of them. Sighing shakily, she let her hands drop back down in front of her, her wrists still bound with the handcuffs that were painfully digging into her skin. Shaking her head slightly, she glanced back down at the floor, her body still shaking with sobs. "Just hurry up and get this whole torture thing over with," she said quietly, sniffling and falling silent for a few moments, before she decided to speak up again. "And I don't need or want a blanket." Listening to 'mother' talk about red and silk being her favorite things, she rolled her eyes ever so slightly, getting annoyed with this girl and how she acted. Taking in shaky, deep breaths, she played around with the handcuffs around her wrists, making it obvious that they were starting to hurt her even more.
(( Sorry if that went all over the place, I had to keep leaving to do something in the middle of typing, come back and hope that I was able to stay on track and pick up where I left off. Also, I apologize if I missed something. ))