"But I have been away from home much longer. If I can be said to have a home, really at all. When I was very little, my family sent me to Spiral Castle to live with the awful Achren!" She paused, sticking her nose in the air. Eilonwy hadn't thought of Achren for a long time— at least a long time by a young woman's reckoning. "I think she was lying about that, anyway."