"I am not bitter."

The world had given her opportunity to learn. But it was delaying an inevitable and it frustrated her.

Her initial answer, 'That is my business and none of your own,' stuck on her tongue. She didn't fully swallow it. "I have taken measures and precautions. They will not enslave me or mine." And how she planned to do this would not be spoken. The spark in her eyes said so, a defiance she couldn't quite restrain. "I do not wait."