In the days since this one returned to Bree, she has met many people. Some are accepting of her presence, although she does not speak of her ways or her past too openly. Curious, they ask many times, but small truths are easier for them to understand. The larger truths are dangerous. Friends have been made or lost for less.
The contacts made in her earlier travels here largely remain, although there is still the occasional need to impress upon the bandits that they are not to touch her or her wares. She will trade with them and for them, as before, but she will also not regret feeding their corpses to the spiders should they forget the arrangement.
This makes matters difficult. The Rohan man, proud and strong, honourable by the standards of the West, was not pleased with the little truths she spoke to him of this matter. No lies has she spoken to him, but much remains concealed. This one wonders if he would remain with her should she tell him more, or would he simply run her through? She must tread lightly in this, for if his heart is to be hers, the shame of his desires and the disapproval of her ways must be overcome. To be his but to be unknown to him... this is not what Calilla wishes. She cannot change the past, but is she willing to change the future?
The return of Mye-kel makes this matter much more clouded. He loved her once. He sought her when she was taken, he says, and he knew her well. He accepted Calilla and her ways, naming her the Spider Queen when she admitted her method of disposing of the dead in this land. Soon, they must speak further. Much has happened.
