[ It's an easy bite back. ] Nor should you. But here you are.

[ It goes as quickly as it comes, exhausted, bitter, she's tired and she's dying and it's not the way she should. Not in battle, not with her sword in her hand. But at least, she is here for the protection of others. ]

If your only purpose here is to chastise me for not being interested in their false pretty words, then your journey, I am afraid, is in vain. Unless you're here for sight-seeing, of course, I suppose I could dance for your entertainment. The Cetagandans seem to like it when you do that.

[ Another laugh, hiding her face away behind her greying hair, and this one, more than anything, was to herself. ]