This blasted jewel. Ariel could tell that letting them know about her past had hurt her chances. She thought carefully for a moment about how to respond, wringing her wrist in her hand. "I guess you could say that they did commit some acts that most would find... questionable. I didn't understand them to be immoral until I was banished though." She took a deep breath through her mouth, "No, I was banished because... well there was a point where I realised a suffering I was causing, and I picked the lesser of two evils to stop that suffering. This was against the will of my... superiors." Ariel was not looking at her interviewers directly at this point. With a glance at Meesei, Ariel decided not to divulge further, but she looked up with a quite serious face at Juseich. "I promise, I have no intention of hurting anyone in this city, or endangering it by any means. I'm..." she looked down, "I'm not really a witch anymore. I left that life behind."

There was only a flicker in the jewel as Ariel thought that they might disagree to bringing a pack of werewolves into the city, but Ariel knew the pack meant no harm.

Ariel could see skepticism from Leaps-Over-Turtles still, she had a feeling he would want to investigate further. Juseich, however, leaned forward and looked over her, still thinking. "And what has made Thorn your new home? It seems a long way in any case." Juseich asked.

Ariel started to answered with a similar tone to her previous answer, but she was glad for the moment that not all of them had decided to shun her away. "It was a few things. I had read about Black Marsh before and was quite astounded by the diversity of life here. Both plant and animal. As an alchemist, I've always been interested in discovering more about the properties of possible ingredients in this place." Her hand moved from holding her wrist to holding her fingers, "Additionally, I had heard that Thorn was reputed as a beautiful city, one that I had always wanted to visit." She managed a smile, "This festival has proven its reputation, I must say." She sniffed and her smile faded, "My friends here were travelling down this way anyway, so I took the opportunity to accompany them."

Ariel hoped that the change of topic would detract from her past, but she doubted they would all let it go that easily.