Elissa crouched in a smooth motion to retrieve her hunting knife from the ground before she answered.

"Yes. I did. The pair of you may have led exceptionally blessed lives that kept you from ever suffering so much that you would wish another person dead. I have not been so blessed. If he had needed vengeance against another so much that it required death, then better for me to provide it than for him to soil his hands. My hands, after all, are already tainted."