"That's not why I'm upset... I don't know if you've ever fought with your mother, being as you make her out to be a she-devil, but... On the day I was.... taken, I got into a big argument with my parents."<br/><br/>Amora slid down the tree trunk, her back facing Tehvar and she sat on one of the large roots. "It's tradition for young women to marry before they turn 20, else they become undesirable and grow up to be old maids. They wanted me to marry a complete meat head, all brawn but nothing upstairs if you understand what I mean. I would have no part in it, they yelled, I yelled, and... that was the last thing they'll remember me by, how I was terrible to them..."<br/><br/>Amora wiped a tear from her cheek, swallowing her sobs, "My mother told me there were always worse things than marrying someone you didn't love... I guess I figured that one out for myself.."