The one thing I’ll grant you about Perdie is that she was fierce. That might seem oxymoronic — a fierce, battered wife? But they’re more common than you think. She’d had her reasons for staying, and she knew what they were. Now that she’d been given a bigger reason for leaving, nothing was going to deter her from that path, certainly not her own fear and inadequacy. One of my favourite things about you humans is how willingly you will run pell-mell into situations you are entirely unequipped to handle. As often as not, you even prevail through sheer obstinacy. Perdie was one of those sorts.
