"No..." Melany said weakly, barely able to fight back.  "I... I didn't.  I wasn't the one that chained you to that altar, Mareth!" she shouted with a brief surge of energy, though it didn't last long enough for her to fight back.  "I... I did something wrong.  Let me end it, here, now," she said, her voice shifting to grim determination as she backed away from Mareth's attacks.  Mareth could sense something different in her attitude as well, her fighting matching her voice, though it seemed as if she were merely shutting in her emotions as she fought.