"A magician thought he needed to save me... save me from what?" She frowned and shook her head, bitter in her memory of Schmendrick. She knew it was unkind, and perhaps uncalled for, but she felt so thoroughly unsettled and she could not escape it. Not in this body, and she couldn't escape to Cabeswater, either.

She was trapped, and cages frightened her.

"Why can't they leave well enough alone?"