"It'd give you an edge," Erin admits, with no small frustration. "Valdis's most effective weapon is to attack your soul directly. Mine's heavy with the Wyrd, might buy time to make her body die with me, but it's a bit of a bitch. And...I worry." She kisses Ylva's cheek. "You know me, I'll see a deadly and skilled lass and my no brain cells want to protect her."