Sun Mote Copse Break out of captivity

He sounded so offended by the idea that she flinched a bit.  She hadn't expected that surety, but it brought instant relief, followed by a flash of frustration as everything she'd been struggling with was brought up by a single question returned to her.

Yeah. It's not like I have a choice.  She said, unable to help herself.  She knew it was cheap, to bring that up.  There was no reason she should want to leave, and she didn't really.  She immediately regretted it, because she knew what it implied.

I'm not going.  I didn't even want to before.  It was stupid, I got scared, I ran and was too dumb to find my way back.  She said, with a rueful kind of humor to it.  It was easier to joke about it because then she could ignore the fact that she'd disappeared because she'd been too much a coward to deal with the shaking in the earth.  No one else had run; just her.