Why had she chosen [i]dare!?[/i]

Truth and Dare was a solved game. You asked for truth first and then, if the question was too harsh, you chickened out and went to dare instead. She should have asked for truth! It's - urgh. Nobody [i]starts[/i] with dare! Even if the the sphinx denied chicken-outs even a punishment outcome would have been preferable to this! Sure, her day had been ruined already by honesty, but that just meant that there wasn't anything nearly as bad to still confess.

She had her eyes clenched all the way shut. It was the only way she was going to get through this. She took a deep breath, cleared her aching throat for the fifteenth time. 

Okay. It was time. No more stalling. Just rip the band-aid off. Get it over with. You can do this, Adila.

She opened her mouth. Breath hesitated on her lips. And then she started to sing with her so long-hidden natural voice.

[i]"Puff the magic drag~on lived by the sea~
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee..."[/i]