Jade Fern Grove but you are dressed in night and snow

Her heart thrumped and her stomach twisted.

"Rivenvood vill raise them."

She might have rebuked with a sharpness but she could not find it within her. Not to mention the way she wilted beneath his question.

I still yearn for it.

Meek and whispered. How she wished she had a veil to cover her own downward features.

It was not a true answer to his question, but perhaps it cleared the thought that she had simply not chosen it. If only this whole thing had been that easy.