"I can. Ask your brother. I'm very nice to him." When Bella turned around again, she had a smile on her face, still quite happy about hitting the owl.
"And what? They forgive me and we all become friends and go skipping around the island together? Come now, cousin, you know that if I'm even half as horrible in the future as they say I am, that will never happen. I don't even think I want it to." She looked up into the sky, thinking. She was quite comfortable with what they said she would become. In a way, she was looking forward to it.