"Tense?" She shrieked. "Tense? Of course I'm tense! I'm mandated to be here in a huge castle so some king can find his heir, and things might well fall apart without me! And you're saying Im tense!"
She didn't really agree, but she didn't press the point. "I didn't know you had to live like that--on the streets... How did you find your way to the clinic?"
"Okay, how about you?" Abihal was mad now. "Do you have a girlfriend? Do you have siblings? Are your siblings okay? Do you steal for a living? Have you ever fallen into a pond?"
"Well, I started in with the marshmallows, and then Essa asked me to join her organization, and I thought it'd be nice to take a break from the court and all that."