[If they wanted to control or punish... The thought is terrifying really. A new fear, something she hadn't even considered before. Though. No. No, she can't think about it.
Her hand clenches on the handle of her bag, and she can feel the breaking of the thin layer of frost forming there.
Nowhere to run. No way to evade the subject. She just has to try to be calm. To breathe.]
I-- I was raised in a castle. A-- handmaiden to the princess. [A lie. But a lie that keeps her safer, she thinks, than admitting she's a queen.] I never learned anything about farming or hunting.
no subject
Her hand clenches on the handle of her bag, and she can feel the breaking of the thin layer of frost forming there.
Nowhere to run. No way to evade the subject. She just has to try to be calm. To breathe.]
I-- I was raised in a castle. A-- handmaiden to the princess. [A lie. But a lie that keeps her safer, she thinks, than admitting she's a queen.] I never learned anything about farming or hunting.