eventually she is reunited with her husband, but then a pirate crew (unbeknownst to them called upon by verona's husband, lord lucan, in a bid for more power) slays him and leaves sonja on the brink of death. sonja is then nursed to health by osin, in sonja's previous life a bard companion and now a gruff swordsman, who accepted the curse of claw the unconquered for himself in exchange for the ability to locate and train the new incarnation of red sonja.