Valencia stops, her blade millimeters from your face. The madness fades from her eyes as her breathing returns to normal.

She returns her sword to her side and returns to camp in silence, ignoring the monster corpses strewn across their former lair. You follow and tend to her wounds.

You're still not sure how you ended up together. She appeared during a monster attack, nearly killed you after slaying the beasts, and when she left, you followed.

The pattern has been repeated countless times since.