"I am well," she assured him. "They have not hurt me. But you, you are bruised. Need you anything?"

The pirates had, at first, been unsure of how to behave around her, but she had bested one of them in a test of swordsmanship, and then they had been more respectful. It was the pirate she had bested whose sword she carried, in fact, which she had earned through skill at arms.