[ She is actually old enough that her go-to shouldn't be "school", but rural shitholes lend themselves to arrested development. No jobs with ladders to climb, no new people, no point in continuing to grow on a personal level. Stakes? What are those? We don't know her.
Also, her preferred method of winning competitions is to brutally wreck everyone else, so there's that. Someone else has better chili at the church cook-off? Put dirt in their pot. Someone beat you out for a spot on the cheerleading squad? Take a tire iron to her leg. It's not as elegant, but it's all still very effective.
She still nods, absorbing this wisdom and filing it away. ]
So you think you got somethin' that's gonna be that valuable to 'em?
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Also, her preferred method of winning competitions is to brutally wreck everyone else, so there's that. Someone else has better chili at the church cook-off? Put dirt in their pot. Someone beat you out for a spot on the cheerleading squad? Take a tire iron to her leg. It's not as elegant, but it's all still very effective.
She still nods, absorbing this wisdom and filing it away. ]
So you think you got somethin' that's gonna be that valuable to 'em?