AYLETH
Ayleth gaped at her in stunned rage. "I am no such… such mindless thing and you know it!"
"Do I?" her mother sneered. "I came expecting to gather my warrior princess and bring her home, and all I find is a pretty girl who has been coddled and is now throwing a tantrum because she hasn't gotten her own way."
Ayleth shook her head and took a deep breath. "You're just trying to upset me, to make me lose control."
"No, I'm trying to shake you out of this stupor that this man has put you under! I've half a mind to bespell him again so you can see the idiocy that you're following!"
Ayleth drew back in her own fury. "You will not touch him—with your magic, or your weapons!"
"Or what?"
