"I shouldn't have had to run off," she says, and her voice still wobbles but it's getting stronger. "The Council should have sent somebody. Me, anybody. I had to do this because nobody in charge would. Because we trusted her and she betrayed us and got some of us killed, and nobody cared that she was just going to walk away --"

She swallows, and it hurts her throat.

"You didn't even care."