Mudminnow River under pressure

Aoife revealed that she knew how it felt to be crushed by rules (though, really, she wasn't- Dawn didn't quite understand that rules were born merely out of her family's love for her. abandoning one's own kin seemed drastic, and a foreign idea to the girl- she did love her father, and her brother, no matter how many times they stifled her fun (and mostly dangerous) games. "Didn't you love them, though?" she asked, confusion furrowing her brow in the slightest. 

her next questioned caught her off-guard- still young, she did not know how transparent her thoughts were. "No- I like Dawn. Dawn is...pretty. Besides, Dawn is me, how could I not like me?" she asked, confusing herself in the slightest as she tried to explain.  "But Aoife sounds...magical." she admitted, looking up to the woman. another thought occurred to her, and she asked, "What do you do now? That you've left."  she questioned, half wondering at what it would be like to abandon all responsibilities of home and run away.