[And for a long moment silence to put faces to the characters, allowing it to play out without this accented voice. There's a point where she can find where the tale would have veered sharply off had it been told to her in her childhood but her childhood wasn't the same childhood others shared.

(Morrigan has shared her most tame bedtime tales, nightmares are not for everyone.)]

A tale where the witch is the wicked one, I imagine even the Chantry would approve of such a story where a girl is tested in such a manner by the corrupting nature of magic yet resists. Though there would be no reward such as that for her but that she might keep living. [Someone might argue there's magic in that, it makes for poor storytelling but for the best of them at telling it. An unremarkable thing but to live until you come so close to having not.] I take it we are to imagine she did not live long, this daughter abandoned in the woods with her toads?

[One has to know all the details to make a proper judgement of these things.]