Word spread faster than she could travel.
To the powerless, she became a story whispered over fires: a woman who hunted war itself. To commanders, she became a problem that refused to die.
She learned to fight the way war teaches—efficient, unsentimental. She fought those who mocked the dead, those who burned villages, those who bragged about children screaming.
She told herself each body brought her closer to him.
She did not know she was walking in the shadow of his last stand.