What a coincidence, Darcy also happens to have a sword. She also happens to be dead. Animate, but dead, and full of deathly energy which seems to be the reason she's upright. The feeling of something more powerful than herself spurs the same reaction that Bash got; a feeling like staring into the maw of one of the Kerberoi.

"Uh," Darcy stammers after a moment, "hi. You're new?"