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[widow_of_the_crag]

"Dark Wings, Dark Words"

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[dorzalta]

It's true only if you make it so. They may call us stupid girls, but the only stupid ones are those who underestimate us. Remember that.

[ She feels ridiculous saying these things, especially because she understands the importance of this. But there had been a time, once long ago, where she hadn't understood these intricacies. ]

If you fear that, then who will you place your trust into?

[ She doesn't answer as quickly as the other responses have been. ]

What's happened has happened, and I've become who I am because of those circumstances. That's more important.

[widow_of_the_crag]

I will try. [It might even be easier to believe, so long as she was away from her mother and uncle. There wouldn't be a constant reminder of her failings to anticipate this betrayal staring her in the face.] I can't imagine anyone fearing me as they might you though.

[She was not intimidating. It simply wasn't in her nature and she accepted that.]

I don't know. That is my question. I cannot even trust my family.

[dorzalta]

Give it time.

[ It's all she can say. Have faith, learn to grow. She'd been just as timid and skittish as a girl. But these are personal things. Experiences she's only just broached with another. ]

You don't trust your husband's family, lady?

[widow_of_the_crag]

I knew his mother and she was kind to me, though I don't think she approved of me. I never met his sisters or Jon, I only heard of them.

Jon has been good to me, but I don't know him very well yet. I know better now to blindly put my trust in anyone. Even my own family.

Do you understand that feeling?