[ Does she keep company with some kind of spirit then? Perhaps, she had heard the Afghani's speak of djinn, that would appear and disappear at random like phantoms of bad will. A nursemaid's stories to get a little girl into her bed on time, no doubt, but...

... in hours as long as these, whose to say what might wander forth? ]

I never wished for it - and yet it came to me. [ Never wanted anything but to protect her people, never cared for anything but their lives and now someone was coming to take them away. Not someone, but things, monstrous things, she knew they would not spare them, any of them. Their bellies would drag on the ground with how much they will eat - men, women, children. All will be consumed, and she - will fight till the breath gave out of her body. ]

Yet you are here. On the eve of war, if you have such a distaste for human acts of such a kind.