"Good," the woman said, with a nod. "You are learning. I am Dahlia, former warrior nun of Aliquama. What I am now is less clear, of course." She smiled at Valeria. "I abandoned my headdress when I abandoned my mission and found another. A better one a more... pleasurable one, you might say," she said, letting a finger run over her collar with a shudder. "And what of you, Valeria? What is your mission here?"