I had the power to keep him from controlling me, but it took me eight years to use it.

[ katsa wants to be honest. she was a child, and randa was cruel, but she might have kept listening to him forever had po not helped her realize the potential of her own strength. ]

That's why I don't serve any man now, none but myself. I won't give myself away again and kill without reason. We've both things to make up for doing, but at least we've years ahead to do it—maybe some of it we can do together, whatever it might be.