Marian scoffed before she could even stop herself, in the middle of pushing herself up from the ground. That she kept herself from catapulting up and away faster than would look natural and normal for a Lady was grace enough on her nerves.

"Aren't you an assumptive drunk." It was incredibly sharply but better than the honesty and anger of the first four things that crowded her mouth. "I will not spend my whole life as a prisoner for either of you."

She could not contemplate that life.

Even as she lived it already.