Lion Head Mesa I want people to be afraid of how much they love me. [WP]

They left it up to Sorana.

This was a big ask. She was still only a little girl, no matter that she was growing quickly and would soon stand at her mother's height. She was only a frightened young thing in a strange place with strange peoples and customs. How was she to know the best course? She wanted to leave. She wanted to go, now, now!

She held her tongue from uttering that, instead frowning in confusion. Her eyes, bright blue like her mother's, lifted to the yellow-green of her kin, for that was what Lilitu was. Kin in this foreign palace. Won't your husband be sad if you get married and then l-leave?

It was an innocent question, not meant to side one way or the other; she did not know the nature of this arrangement. Wouldn't it be easier for all involved if Lilitu simply did not get married and left now?