<em>As she continues to write, the information flows to him. She's 16, an orphan by way of plague, taken in by the tavern owner, her uncle. A hardworking girl with the typical education of a peasant, she never had the time or inclination to get a boyfriend, knowing from her younger days how much men tended to abuse women, at least in the tavern, so, of course, she assumed that they almost always abused women. More recently, she's begun to shrug off that stereotype, but even now it has some degree of sway with her. She's bright and insightful- had she been born higher, she might have gotten far. But, as it happened, she is here now. Perhaps things will turn out alright. </em>