Pushed away: Okra

It reads situations through whatever it is feeling at the time and then acts on the reading, which produces confident interpretations that turn out to be about something else entirely, and reactions that damage the room they happen in. A household run on emotional weather rather than on thought gave it no practice at checking a perception before spending it. What it asks for is to test one strong reading with a single question before acting on it.

I saw exactly what was going on, and I was wrong about all of it.

It echoes Ajax in the dark, certain he was cutting down the men who had wronged him, standing among the cattle when the light came up. The form implies a task: to ask what is actually in front of him before the sword goes anywhere.