Sun Mote Copse Palm Trees in the Snow

"You really think so?" Wraen asked hopefully and for a moment there she looked younger than her years and very vulnerable. Though leaving had turned out the best decision she had made for herself, she would be lying, if she declared that there was no guilt mixed in there as well. Terance had been hurt on many occasions that year and she had felt bad for - let's put it like this - beating someone, who had already been lying on the ground. 

But telling everything to Elwood had made her feel just the same as she would have opened her heart to her own father. His opinion mattered and his simple conclusion and agreement that she had done, what had been best for her, was relieving. Here and then she was finally able to put the matter to rest and move on. "Thanks, that helped," she told him with a sincere smile.