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She looked to them and saw her words fall heavy as a hammer fall. In the male, there was resignation. In the female, despair. They did not react with rage, nor with violence, and if they had, Ragna would have been just as quick to dispatch them. Arunik'ra's game with Sullivan had shortened Ragna's patience for those who crossed into their lands or disrespected their boundaries.

Why? Asked the man, a question that was easy enough to answer yet so very difficult to say. She crossed into our territory and disrespected our borders, Ragna said, steel-cold and sharp as a sword. Then she softened, for she could see that this came as a blow to the woman, and Ragna was not without compassion. She did not suffer. Of that, at least, the Shieldmaiden was certain.