[The response comes quickly, sullenly, and though Sieglinde has grown used to needing to explain why she prefers being carried to walking herself... It didn't mean she liked doing it. She didn't want the reminders of the fact that her feet had been broken and folded over, made unnaturally small in order to hobble her movements and keep her close. In her village everyone had known and there had been no questions for it at all. She'd been proud of it once- the proof of her inheritance of the title Green Witch.
But now she knew the truth and they were just reminders of her own naivety.]
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It is not because I am tired.
[The response comes quickly, sullenly, and though Sieglinde has grown used to needing to explain why she prefers being carried to walking herself... It didn't mean she liked doing it. She didn't want the reminders of the fact that her feet had been broken and folded over, made unnaturally small in order to hobble her movements and keep her close. In her village everyone had known and there had been no questions for it at all. She'd been proud of it once- the proof of her inheritance of the title Green Witch.
But now she knew the truth and they were just reminders of her own naivety.]