"I was fortunate."

She has told herself that for years; will keep telling herself that for far longer.

"My foster mother fled from the city with me before it was sacked."

Not before the castle was, of course. And not before her father was murdered... though who knew precisely when that was? She'd heard the castle's populace screaming in terror, seen the blood in the corridors, but technically she didn't know.

One day, that might stop being distressing.