"Ah, but you see, for my god's sake I can't. I promised her an interesting death, someday. It will come for me, I'm certain. All I have to do is wait."

She blinked, picking up her medicalrobot and rubbing the sensor behind its head, making it scrabble and claw looking for a wound to suture. "Just wait here. Either death will find me, or Horanckk."

Then she beamed at nothingness. "Or - the war will end, and all our worlds will be remade, and we can all go home with all our new friends and live happily ever after!"

Her tone suggested she didn't believe a word of it.