I've had some time to think since ending up here, and revenge, retribution, whatever you want to call it, it won't help or change anything. [It also runs counter to the things that one of her closest friends had basically spent their whole life insisting upon, despite how much it felt like the rest of Remlia had been against them.

But, if Valvatorez had managed to catch sight of Katida during the battle, he would know that her emotional wounds haven't come anywhere close to healing yet, and might not for a good while still; the hallucinations, that vision, presumably of one of the individuals who had been responsible for whatever happened, that had set her off particularly hard.]

Maybe it would be better to just give them what they want and not go back at all, find a new home somewhere else and try to live the way Amica would have wanted me to.