[ The woman makes a non-committal sound, a grunt, but says nothing on the matter. ]

[ She has no interest in stating her own what ifs of who should have been here. It does no good now and all she can - and would do - is swear by their words and lives she'd act with their intentions and do the right thing. It's all she had to go on. ]

Sitting by doesn't get you that knowledge, either. Something has to give. [ Maybe, in some ways, it was against her own nature to note devote her entire self to something. It's what she was taught and bled for and at least in this cause - if it meant her family, she has no qualms sacrificing her life for them if it came to it. She does not share this fact. ] Whatever we believe, they are in conflict and we're the pieces on the gameboard. Who the victor and the results are is all we have to work for.