Well, that could have gone better.<br/>Castella had already started to deflate in on herself as, rather than the usual rejection, she’d caused far more of a mess than she’d expected. These weren’t the ones back home who she’d gotten to know and she really should have known that instead of causing all of this.<br/><br/>Even then, the slight resistance to Aurelia’s touch had melted remarkably quickly, the small highborn woman letting the bigger, stronger guardswoman steer her around with no real resistance, although the brunette seemed to melt into her side as she gave her control over their direction, partly due to her feelings about her most recent failure but partly … well, she wasn’t going to have those sort of thoughts for a while, not after they’d caused her to mess everything up so much just now.<br/>