[ There's fear in her eyes, but there is also fire. Fire in her words and her voice, fire that he has not heard the like of in such a long, long time. Even now, she doesn't shrink back in fear, but pleads her brother's case. She has conviction, and...love.

It stokes something uncomfortably deep, deep within his heart, too, but he banishes it away before it can manifest, turning it instead to fire of his own. ]

And will it be a crime when he returns home to tell all what he has seen here? You have already come, and that is more than enough of a crime!

[ She should have just stayed away and left her brother to die. It would have been better for her. This foolish, fire-tongued girl. ]