She watched him kiss her hand, and she ran her knuckles over his cheek after, a slow still thing. "Do not forget what you have learned today. You control your own freedom; no one else has this power over you. Do not give it away again," she told him.
And then she stepped down from the fountain, gave him one parting look and disappeared into the press of people they'd summoned with their screams; there one moment, and gone the next.