I am so damn happy it didn't force them into being enemies through bullshit reasons.
she didn't think she could get out. which is why we respect her all the more.
That does explain some. I was looking at it from a story-lens, where if you just deny knowing the person then ppl will believe you (maybe suspect stuff and make life hard for you, but you will still be safe), instead of kill you just to be safe, or outright see through obvious lies. So to me it felt like she was being either foolish (even though I like it), or for some reasons suddenly didn't consider her human friends as friends just because they are enemies to her master friend.
But indeed, if we consider things more realistically, she did probably indeed know that she was screwed either way, and if she let them kill him then they would eventually kill her, anyway. So better to confess and resist, than await being burned alive. Hell, even if you die doing so, that death should still be more painless.
Have a bad feeling about where this is heading. But I hope I'm wrong.
I have a good feeling. The way they are using her full-name (alongside with "if you X then you are a witch"), this reads more to me like a denouncement scene, where she is denounced as a witch that will be known to all as the traitor of humanity. So if she enters a vilalge later on, they go all "The Witch, Iris Silverfloof!? RUN!" (yes, I don't remember her name
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