[ reaches out and wraps her fingers around her arm, a tight grip ]

There is man here... Zenos, he said. Not of sound mind. Threatened to slit my throat.

[ her throat bobs beneath the collar as she speaks, as she swallows thickly ]

I decided to—to...

[ to what? just about kill herself in front of him? why did she do that? what is wrong with her? ]

...to take fun out of it for him.