"Your secret is safe with us," Agnes persisted. "I understand why a girl wouldn't want to reveal herself in a knighthood full of men and boys, but I also can't help feeling horribly sorry that you're hiding yourself. You were in danger of being revealed without anyone else able to protect your secret."
It was an aspect Irene hadn't fully considered before considering her excitement to simply barrel forward into the knighthood and become someone who wasn't weak.
She treated herself as invincible since her strength was growing and goblins were no longer the biggest threat in her life—ironic considering a goblin was the reason she was in that bed in the first place. It was hard to remind herself that she was still a person just as before with a life to lose.
Felix acted as if she was close to death when he was there. Before he joked, he looked truly miserable at the sight of her.
