She shook her head to dispel the image of a happy family. The promise that she is going to make soon will make her future with Ravin too distant to be realistic, so there's no use thinking about it at all. Even if she survives today, it will be a while more before she can be together with Ravin and have beautiful kids.
Her head swerved sharply to observe the army of Vipers. Unlike the ocular monkeys, they don't look nervous, and they aren't in formation like proper soldiers. It is obvious that the Vipers aren't soldiers. Normal Vipers have no need to fight when they have paragons. But they are here because their paragons arranged them to be so.
