Eda chuckles. If she actually didn't want people asking, she probably wouldn't bring that sort of thing up so much.

"For being a rebel," she says with a grin, before actually elaborating. "Our government loves to brand everyone so they can control how we use our magic. And lock people up for being even a little bit different... among other unsavory things. I wasn't about that. And I wasn't really about letting them do it to other people, either."

Which is, of course, a very different take than he's likely to get from the other witch he's met. But she happens to be sure that the difference is she's right.