"I'm not exactly on bad terms with them."  She answered, shaking her head for that little bit of extra emphasis.  "I write to them pretty frequently, actually, and they write me back often enough.  Still, I used to be pretty resentful about it, and they live far enough away from the Monastery anyway that I can't just take a weekend and go visit them, or anything like that.  The last time I saw them was when there was a family emergency."<br/><br/>Of course, even though she used to be pretty resentful, that resentment was gone now.  It had taken her a few years, but one day she had been looking back on it all and she'd had the sudden realization that her family hadn't sent her away for the reasons she'd thought they'd had.  She was sent to the Monastery more out of necessity than anything else...