To discover her answers, 

 is the challenge

 

To  interest her in your questions,

harder still

 

How will you decipher her code

with so few clues?

 

What do you offer as barter,

what is your fair exchange?  

 

The reward is in her surrender; 

her voluntary acquiescence

 

The knowing why is just a footnote

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 thanks to jessicaj for the title/ gift