[Except when he places his hand on her shoulder, her body reacts by cringing back so terribly she would have fallen out of the swing had she not been grabbing on to the chain. Stupid, it was stupid because this is Freyjadour, the one person in the whole village she knew without a doubt would never physically harm her, but the shadows of faces in her mind are keeping her body from acting on what her heart knew.
She wanted to cry, but already she was too scared and exhausted to do even that.]
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She wanted to cry, but already she was too scared and exhausted to do even that.]