"If Spinning isn't... if it's not what you were meant to do," she says, because even if fate is not what she believes for her world, it is what Autor seems to believe for his, "then it is through no failure of yours that you can't Spin. Not your fault, not your failure."

"You are no failure, Autor," Rae reiterates, holding him steady. "If your father thinks that, he's a shortsighted fool."

She will go home with him and protect him, if need be.