Of everyone who had come to the Vale of Mists in the past year, Ashlynn's relationship with Samira was perhaps the most complicated.
Ashlynn could still remember when she'd first encountered the former maidservant who was posing as her because of the general resemblance between the two of them. Owain, in his thoughtlessness, had given Samira access to all of Ashlynn's dresses, jewelry, and other personal items, so that she could 'play the part', and when Ashlynn first met Samira, the other woman was wearing the pearl necklace that had belonged to Ashlynn's grandmother.
In that moment, Ashlynn wanted to hate Samira. She wanted to denounce her as an imposter and reclaim the things that were hers, the things that had been taken from her… But the more she spoke to Samira on that first night, the more she realized that the young woman was just as much of a victim as she was.
