That sounds brilliant to me, thank you for offering. I'll be ready to begin any time you are.

[ Claire takes a sip of her tea before answering and clears her throat. ]

It's a story that would keep you here for a while, but the short version is I was a woman in a time when we weren't supposed to be too educated, too smart. Or at least, not smarter than the nearest men. I healed a boy who'd accidentally poisoned himself. The local priest had written him off as possessed, but the boy got better after I gave him the antidote. I made too many 'mistakes,' in that regard, making people better in a time when modern medicine didn't exist.

[ And that made it easy for Column to arrange for Geillis to be arrested at the same time Claire happened to be visiting her. Two women he disliked and wanted rid of, tried and executed for the price of one. ]

I had no magic, of course. But it didn't matter; I was a woman disrupting politics with my marriage, and my husband's uncle truly wanted rid of me. Once I was alone, and everyone thought my husband was too far to get word of what was happening, I was thrown in prison.

[ Even that was long, and Claire gives Himeka an apologetic look. ]

My life has been complicated to say the least.