But she's not a..[She pauses, trying to think of the right word.] she's not a regular person like you or I. She's gifted. Her senses are much stronger and she has living metal she could form into knives from her knuckles. She is training to be on the perimeter guard, where her talents could be put to better use.

But this is all of her own free will. We have slaves back home, it is the way of things, but you don't enslave such people, not when they are better suited for battle.