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She's a four-year-old girl, and people (especially her Dad) insist she's a boy.
Not that she isn't sometimes. She is. But not today! Today she's a girl. And Dad keeps saying that's not true, that God made her body perfect and she shouldn't second-guess God's plan for her. God made her a boy, so she's supposed to be a boy. And on the one hand that kinda makes sense. God doesn't make mistakes, right? So if she were really a girl sometimes, then she'd... what? Her body would change, she guesses. But on the other hand, she knows she's a girl. She's a girl with a peepee, that's obvious. She'd prefer not having a peepee when she's a girl, but it's not the worst thing ever. And if God doesn't make mistakes, God also didn't make her feel like a girl sometimes on accident, right? It must be part of His (because God is always a He, even though God made everyone, boys and girls, in His image, he's always a He, Dad says) plan.
She tells Dad that, today, and Dad gets angry, and yells at her, and she doesn't know why he's yelling. It makes sense to her! But he won't explain why she's wrong, he's just yelling, Dad's so mean, she hates him, and she's not crying, shut up, you're crying!
And now Mum's coming and she's talking to Dad, and that usually makes Dad stop yelling and go away but he won't stop now and Sadde's angry and afraid and hurt and she's running away. A part of her thinks that it doesn't make much sense to run away, the park is pretty open and she can't really hide anywhere, and she'll have to go back because she'll get hungry (not now, though, she just ate a sandwich).
So she runs until she finds some bushes where she can hide, and she hides there, and she doesn't cry, and she spends a long time not crying. Mum and Dad don't come after her, though, and after she's done not crying she doesn't wipe her eyes and her nose, and she comes out the other way of the bushes she was hiding in.
And she's pretty sure that's not the park.
"Didn't know yet. Figured you'd be good for something."
"Yes. About three hours' flight to the nearest satellite."
"...you have a funny definition of nearby but alright. What information can you give me about Thorn and his court?"
Yellow can give her lots of information about Thorn and his court! Thorn is a knifewing. He has the following high-ranking vassals. He trades vassals away sometimes and that's how Yellow has one but she wasn't an important vassal. He's pretty torturey. He collects sorcerers.
...she won't remember all of this, but it's interesting that Yellow has a vassal Thorn used to have. "Where is your vassal?"
"In my house."
"Lead me to your house, doing your best to fool your vassal into believing you captured me instead of the other way around, except when this includes anything you think I wouldn't approve of. If you have doubts about what I'd approve of, ask. I would not approve of you flying away from me to try to escape, for the record. If you have any more information you think I will find relevant about anything, tell me it."
"She's too smart to think I captured you under those constraints," he says, lifting off and flying slowly ahead of her.
"Don't make me ask you if you'd approve of something."
"Don't ask me if I'd approve of something in her presence, but if there's anything you predict you'd want to ask in her presence in the previous wording of this order, ask it now."
"May I have your name to tell her so she can command you subordinate to me?" asks Yellow sarcastically.
"...don't ever enforce any orders for me. My name's Sadde. What's her name?"
"Alisyrrabel."
"Duly noted. My current plan is to pretend to be your vassal to get to know her and see if she's..." She looks at Yellow with a raised eyebrow. "Terrible," she completes. "Anything else you can think of you might want to ask me or inform me of with that plan in mind?"
Yellow doesn't want to inform her of anything!
Ugh. "Anything else you think I would want you to ask or inform me of with that plan in mind?"
"She's a sorcerer. She's called Promise. She's pretty well-behaved."
"When she has your name she can take complete control of the situation immediately if you don't give yourself away."
"Hmm. Why would she not have taken complete control of the situation immediately if you had in fact captured me?"
"She behaves better for me than Thorn. But I still think she'll notice you've got me."