She grasped the sword tilting her head in thanks and felt as if the sword should have been there from the start, in her hand. She moved it in fluid motions, as if an extension of her hand and arm, and sheathed it silently. They entered quietly, and quietly they died at the swift strikes of her, as to each of them she muttered her prayer... one she left alive, pinned to the wall by her sword. "Tell this to your others, and tell them well. The Nightmother wishes no blood but those of the darkness. You cross your lines, and shed unnecesary blood for no just cause, and i will be there to smite them, in the name of the Nigtmother and her children. Now go." she said as she pulled the sword from him, backing up to let him run fast. She had whispered her message into his ear, as a lover would to her own... she wiped the sword with a finger, licking the blood. "Dirty blood... not even fit to drink" she said as she spat it on the floor, wiping her sword with her cloak and resheathing it.
"Come, we have things to do child" she said, her eyes changed... they no longer were their light blue, but rimmed much darker, the insides much lighter, almost the silver of a ful moon ringed by night...