The woman would catch up with Erel's allies, who would start guiding her away from the tower, while Erel took up the rear. As she retreated, Erel would feel the hairs on the back of her neck stand up, and if she looked up, she'd see a woman nearly seven feet tall staring down from near the top of the market with coal-like eyes, her body heavily muscled and skin looking almost like brown stone. In one hand she carried an immense axe, and at the sight of it, Erel's sword shivered, as if in recognition... and yet, no one pursued them.