Like the rabbi with the red circle, she should have said "no" to everything. She should have become a raven. She didn't understand that every word the judge said was a trap, in that every word she said could easily be a stone used to shut her into that trap.

“The wickedness of the world was a part of creation, I knew this, and the Angel …”

“They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found th…”

“I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as …”

“He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. T…”