Chapter 97 - The Girl in the Garden

It's difficult now to look at Lenore and see the timid woman she was when she first arrived in Barrowmere. She's let down the walls that she used to keep others out, expecting disappointment or pain. Perhaps rejection. While Alaric didn't read into her personality for reasons other than deciding if she would need to be monitored as a possible danger to his duchy, considering her relation to Claude Rowanhart, it was easy to notice the way she made herself small. He didn't need to observe her to see it.