Listening to the emotion in his voice, her own fear shifts into something else.

Elan liked hurting people. He liked making them do things like cut their own throats - and he laughed

She'd forgotten the anger, the need to destroy that she'd felt when she thought he'd - but now to hear that he was back and that he'd tried to kill her friend -- only a small voice in her head saying that revenge isn't the answer keeps her from setting out to find him.

"If he comes back -- "