“Peace,” Randvi calls, raising her free hand in alarm. “Don't harm yourself further on my account! This is not… this happened several weeks ago. It was my fault.”

Indeed, if he takes a closer look as she approaches, the healing scars across the right side of her face do not look fresh enough to have just occurred, though a bandage still wraps around her head to cover her eye.

“What about you, what happened to you?”