Moonspear by a route obscure and lonely

Alya immediately began to pout when he commanded her not to seek him out. It was phrased as a simple statement of his own desires, but the tone of his voice rankled the spoiled princess's pride. "Why not?" she demanded, her voice all bluster but with hurt in her eyes. She realized a moment later that this sort of behavior was exactly the kind that made her father sigh and sometimes even growl; that insolence was an unattractive trait. 

Hurrying to gloss over her blunder, she replied to his next question with a wagging tail. "Whatever you want," she chirped. "They might pretend to be me, and they might not. You can let on that you know me from them, but there's really no point. Sometimes we can't help being each other."