She went to Carrow in the spring, and she went on her own terms, and getting them took her four months and two shouting matches with her father and one very quiet conversation with the Carrow envoy in which she did most of the talking.
She did not go as a bride. She went as her father's envoy, with a seal and a clerk and the authority to sign, which no woman in Ardwyn had ever had, and which she got because she had walked out of a chapel in front of four hundred people and come back off a hillside nine days later and there was not a man in that kingdom who was prepared to be the one who said no to her.