Is she okay? No, of course she's not okay. She's just been engaged to a psychopath. There isn't a realm in which that is 'okay'. She'd like to tell him all that, but what comes out of her mouth is a quiet,

"No."

There is a several minute span of silence, during which her posture relaxes only slightly, and her gaze does not lift from the ground.

"In ... in the customs of my people... " Eirene's voice is not cracking, thank you, "... when a woman marries, she becomes the property of her husband to do with as he will. It is why I have never considered marriage."

And now she has no choice.