Her words didn't seem to effect the pirate at all. Was he really blaming her for this?? Aideen, a noble woman, who had no real power in the world she lived in.<span style="font-style: italic">He was blaming her? </span>It was enough to set her veins ablaze with rage. If looks could kill. Aideen scrambled to her feet and stood at the bars, she'd have grasped them if she could, but as it were her bound hands were in tight fists behind her back, her knuckles turning white. She wanted to tear that smile from his lips.<br/><br/>Aideen stared at Lance as the crew left, saying nothing. Contemplating how to word what she wanted to say. She wanted it to hurt him. She wanted him to feel the fool for this. Aideen's jaw tightened and she shook her head to try and clear the hair from her face, but it was to no avail. Instead she opened her mouth to speak, her words were low and dangerously so. "You could have taken me away before..." Aideen paused and lowered her head. "Before I had to marry that<span style="font-style: italic">man</span>." She spat out that last word, like it left an awful taste in her mouth. Aideen returned her eyes to him, they were angry and tears threatened to fall. "Before he<span style="font-style: italic">made</span>me consummate...." She couldn't finished her sentence, but there wasn't anything more to say.<br/><br/>Aideen spat at him. The anger, the defiance, was still there in her eyes. There was no pity for herself. "You left me to be eaten by wolves. I tried to wait for you!" Aideen was pressed against the bars now, her voice raising. "You blame me for this? You have no right, you bastard." She did not want to see his reaction, so she turned away from the bars completely and walked near the wall. Aideen leaned against it with her shoulder. She was exhausted and was done talking to him. What could his excuse possibly be? What could he say? She had no real desire to hear it, anyway. Aideen just wanted to be left alone.