"I don't have any enemies," she begins, then pauses and reconsiders. "Well...that's not true, I suppose. There's the skeksis themselves. The emperor. I don't want them to be my enemies."

She tugs at one of the little braids in her hair, frowning in thought. "Maybe that's part of my problem. I want so much for there to be another way, for no one to get hurt. Or at least for no one except the emperor to get hurt. That's the part I don't know if I can manage."

Looking back up at him, she explains, "I don't know what those words mean, but the visions I had came from the Sanctuary Tree. It gave me its own power as it was dying. But I'm not a tree, so it's been...difficult."