Redsand Canyon Wipe the blood out of our eyes

Soldiers did make the most stubborn patients. She knew that one from experience, and not just in those she cared for but in others who were mere acquaintances and packmates like Glaukos. Despite time, she had never really gotten over what had happened there, in that situation.
 
He still did? She couldn’t help but wonder about it; she had assumed Renauld was dead, was passed… and yet, there was a chance it sounded like. She did not wish to pry; there were some who had passed who she saw as still around as well: her mother, for one. She often asked for her guidance despite her passing having happened over a year prior, almost two now.
 
“It is a fair punishment.” She agreed quietly softly. “And it makes loyal soldiers… shortly before you arrived at Mereo, there was a man after me.” She admitted, though the threat had seemed to have long passed. “My former fiancé, Dimitri… he believed to have a claim on me because of my father’s decree I would marry him and he attacked me on Mereo’s borders while Kallik was away on a mission. If not for the discipline instill both in me and in the soldiers by the Imperator’s methods, that day might have turned out differently. I’ve never seen my husband so upset with himself, especially over something he had no control of. There was a time when I arrived here that I wanted to learn to do both, to fight fiercely like the soldiers and to continue healing.” She offered up, though even that drive had faded. She cared to know how to defend herself, but she could do with only dealing with the aftermath.
 
Perhaps, she was oversharing… she breathed in softly and exhaled. “I think you are right… Lady Ruenna kept him grounded, and in her absence I guess I am the next best option.” She chuckled softly.