Gemini

When someone keeps pushing against the same line you have drawn, they are usually asking a question they cannot put into words directly. The testing is not about the rule itself but about whether you still mean what you said when you said it. You can hear this in the way they approach the topic sideways, bringing it up in different contexts, watching your face for any sign that the ground has shifted. The boundary holds not because you repeat it louder but because you remember why you needed it in the first place.