Anastasia shook her head slightly, still not looking up at her mother, "I was.... scared... I could hardly get to sleep at night because I was scared that someone was going to come into my room and kill me... just like they did to you... It only got worse when I let the castle... It was more common for me not to sleep that to get a couple hours of shut eye.... When I came back and Samsul purposed... I immediately offered for him to sleep in my bed." She sniffled, wiping tears away, "Because I thought if he was there it wouldn't be as scary.... and it wasn't....."

She released her mother's hand and buried her face in her own, "Is that why you wanted me here? So that you could pretend to die?"