"All right." If Snow was sure, she was sure, and Vex wasn't going to push. Pushing worked about as well on Snow as it did on Vex, although in very different ways. That was one of the reasons Vex liked her so much.

She nodded and stepped aside for Snow to join her, but didn't say or do anything else until they were outside. Even then she glanced up at the sky to judge how likely it was to start raining again soon, as her hand came up to make sure Elaina's hat – how was it so tiny and so cute, in the inn's signature pink? – hadn't slipped.