What Childe says next makes her frown in both anger and confusion. It's unsettling what he's insinuating. What does he know of Horos that she doesn't? What has the Regent told their Kenoma?

"What do you mean 'before they arrived'? They've always been here. That's the problem. We can't have a better world as long as they won't let us!"

The fervor with which she speaks isn't a show of bravado but the truth of her anger and her loyalty to the cause. The threats Emet-Selch makes to heal her wounds only to hurt her again make her heart sink. Her lips curl back in disgust.

"You're no better than they are..."

Her words are cut off as she cries in pain. Vaeka lurches forward when the knife is pulled back out and she grabs her newly wounded shoulder with a hiss.

"If I'm already set to die...then I've got n-nothing to lose."

She spits at Emet-Selch.