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For the next hour, Ashlynn poured out her grievances. Not about her treatment at the castle but about Owain, her work to prepare for the wedding, the way he dismissed her interests in letters… All of the things that had burdened her heart she spilled like wine from a broken bottle, soaking the shoulder of Thane's tunic in the process.
"I'm sorry," she finally said when she felt like she'd vented out even her pettiest of grievances. "Thank you for listening."
"Feels better, doesn't it?" Thane said with a slight smile. "You might not have died, but you came close enough. I don't know anyone who has died that didn't have a belly full of unspoken grievances they needed to vent out after dying."
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