No. Well. [A thin smile.] As much as vengeance can be obligation, yes. [It's said with a kind of wry humor, the sort of view that can only come with the passage of years or distance.]

She's...the spider aspect of the dragon god Asha. She helps to counsel those of us who mediate between the living and the dead. You've never heard of her? I mean, admittedly the cult is not what it was but it hasn't been that long.

[Still, she'd never heard of an Abhorsen, but she wasn't going to admit that just yet. Still, two worlds was enough, if she was from yet a third...]