"You didn't say anything that needs an apology, but thank you," she says, literally biting the inside of her cheek to keep from saying something like 'but that's not fair' or 'we all deserve to be loved and adored, including you' or anything else that her ridiculous heart wants to put into words.

"I've never had those kinds of constrictions placed upon me. Even if I'd stayed in London Below, any matches made would have been my choice, and not political ones."