His eyes strayed for just a moment, then he cleared his throat again and met her eyes. "We need to discuss what your role here is going to be." He paused to make sure she was listening, then continued. "You have a lot of fight in you--- which is good. You see... there is a nuisance that I have gotten caught up in, where I must present a human to fight at the Colosseum. My others, I'm afraid, don't have the resolve for such brutality. They are used to a cushy, relatively painless life, and they would likely lose their lives instantly under such ordeal. But you, I believe, are a different matter." He paused so she could react.