"Why do you care?" Adala snapped as she pulled back for a second time, only to find that she still couldn't escape Ashlynn's grasp. "Why is who I love so important that you won't just… let it go," she said, hating how petulant her voice sounded.
This wasn't the conversation she expected to have with a Great Witch at all, and she wished that Lady Ashlynn would let the topic go. She'd rather talk about her family and their lands or ways she might be able to help Lady Ashlynn rule the march or… or anything else at all. Anything but this.
"I'll tell you why," Ashlynn promised solemnly. "But only after you give me a name. If you can't do that much, then talking about anything else is going to be far too difficult."
