Alanna smiled and shook her head. "You're always starving when you come over to my house," she pointed out, slyly. Then she sighed at the comment on love. "Love it not for fools. Love is for all. Love is something that means more than people give it credit for. And it doesn't discriminate. You can't help but love sometimes. Heck I love you! Though that's more of a sisterly love than anything!" The last sentence was rather rushed, as if to prevent misunderstandings from being made.<br/><br/>She sighed as she started to chop up the carrots and add them to the stew. Then quickly peeled the potatoes and chopped them up adding them in as well. Finally she added the meat and let it all simmer together. "I do agree with you on one thing: husbands are unnecessary. If a woman can't live her life on her own then she has no business being in the world! You know that's my motto! Oh hey um... I just wanted to say something real quick... You remember the place you found me at the night my parents d- died..."<br/><br/>She, herself, remembered the night well. Her father had gotten himself into some major trouble with a royal guard and paid the price. They had both died that day because her mother jumped in front of her father trying to protect him. In the end, they still killed him but by then she had run off to hide in the woods. She'd hidden in a small cave by the lake and waited for her father, even though he never came. Instead, Elly, her best friend, had come to get her. Elly brought her back to her house and they told her what had happened. She grieved for a while but moved on. The place she'd hidden had become a sort of hideout for the two of them. Now she wanted it to become a meeting place should things go wrong.