“The question, child, is what are you willing to do?” Mairéad asked. “To save Betty, what would you be willing to do?” “Anything,” Ashling said. And she knew it was true. “I’d die for her.” “Dying is easy,” Mairéad said dismissively. “What we are going to ask of you is so much harder than dying.” Ashling swallowed nervously. “What is it?” she asked. “The opposite.”
