Phoenix Maplewood not from others

Alya resisted the urge to say that Desdemona had definitely been borught up wrong if that was the case, figuring that the Morningsiders probably wouldn't appreciate her sneering at their thrall. The girl didn't smell as though she'd been around for very long, but that didn't mean she wasn't under their protection. Still, the Moonspear girl expressed her thoughts on the matter with a disdainful sniff, and then turned her attention back to the creek.

"Someone needs to teach you to speak properly," she said mildly, deciding that Desdemona's urge to apologize for everything definitely needed to be quashed. "No one's going to want to hang around you if you're always sorry about something. You should be more assertive. People like that."