"Good. Leave room for the people who can't sing so there would be less jerks like you around." She didn't care how little sense it made. It was in her head and that made it the most important thing right then. No mean witch like Leah was going to make her feel bad about herself. "Besides, who are you to decide what's important to survival? Hate to tell you but you're not really the queen of this stupid place. It's just something your foreign weirdo of a boyfriend tells you so you'll sleep with him."
Caitie could've easily gone any other direction; the courtyard was a pretty open place, after all. But with Leah in front of her like that, she just froze. The woman was the portrait of intimidating.
The necklace. Her hand went to her neck and she shrugged. "Someone gave it to me." A lie, but said without missing a beat. "It does not! Someone gave it to me, it's mine!" she said seriously. She wasn't going to let Leah bully her. Not without a fight.