Just Away from the Bonfire: Ellie & Rider
If Rider weren't with her right now she might have actually run out into the woods to hide, ban or no ban. Everything she was feeling was magnified...thank you spiked cider and inexperience there with...which was kind of frightening.
"I dunno," she said as she looked up at Rider, pleading eyes, damp lashes and all. "He seemed awful mad. I'm not even really payin' to be here. I'm a ward. They could yank that away." Which was a really scary thought. Where would she go then? Sorin and the others would still be here!