The Tangle I came of age and I found a girl in a Tuscaloosa bar

Svalinn snorted, both amused and annoyed by her response, but if he wondered why she would do this alone, he didn't ask. Instead, he went for a low blow and narrowed  his gaze upon his sister's spear-sharp expression with the glare of a budding argument. "You do remember you were almost their prisoner too, right?" he queried in a tone that started off low and pompous before ending on a high, anxious note. "I'd rather keep you here, in one piece, if it's all the same to you."