Blackfeather Woods i like irons, but i love fire

Right, she murmured, her pre-conceived notions beginning to slip away (Ramsay had always been good at that). But if Cicero hadn't sired the girls, then which Melonii had? Miraak, possibly, but then why would Relmyna lie about that to keep Maegi in the woods? She'd known how dear Miraak was to Maegi, after all.

Maegi shook it off, just in time to flash Ramsay a grateful smile. Grateful that he seemed to have forgiven her, after everything that had happened. At his question, she gave a shrug, looking around with a sigh that captured all the weight on her heart in one sound.

I didn't really have a plan, she admitted. All I wanted was to get back here. Now that I'm here—and everybody is gone—I don't know. I just know that I'm not leaving again. They'd (whoever they was) would have to drag her out stone-cold dead; she wasn't walking out of the forest under her own power, not for anything in the world.