[Eilonwy shakes her head and returns the smile briefly before she replies,] It isn't a good thing, I agree. But that does help a little bit. Once I'd left to calm down, I had some time to collect myself. Taran found me a while later, and I'd been crying about.. Well, just about what he'd said, honestly. Not that everything else wasn't upsetting it's just..

[The comments about being ignorant based on her being a girl had stung the hardest.] It's just that we were both unkind. I pointed out that we would all need to work together and Taran apologized for what he'd said. We all got some rest once we were back at camp.