[She doesn't get the sharpness, because she doesn't know this guy but ... but there's something there. Something familiar, that she can't put her finger on.]

Freedom is not going to help your victimization. Yet you need it to feel safe in your own skin. It doesn't take away what happened to you, but it gives you the hope that it won't happen again.

You aren't going to walk into a Circle because you think that's an invitation for bad people to do bad things to you.

Now just flip that around.

A Circle isn't going to keep me from becoming my mother, if that's my fate. However, it makes me feel safer, makes me feel less like I am going to lose control. I can't take away what my mother did to me, but I can choose to be different. I can chose to keep people safe from my magic.

I'm not going to be letting myself be abused, have rocks thrown at me, starve because people won't go near an apostate mage.

You choose freedom. I choose a Circle. I'm not telling you that you have to go back - so why are you telling me that I have to stay out of a Circle?

Hypo-crit-ical.