Give it a serious though

'Those guys are…'

Etaria walked across the open area of the plain. 

Without reporting anything to her subordinates or giving them the order to stop, she waltzed right across the no man's land that she didn't dare to let her soldiers on. 

'On how things have changed,' she thought, gritting her teeth in a sudden bout of irrational amusement. 

Etaria's very goal was to sabotage her vassal armies to the point they wouldn't pose any real threat to the emperor's private guard. A precaution in the face of the inevitable dissolution and shattering of the empire. 

And with the appearance of that strange, young man, she suddenly started to care for the life of even the weakest of the warriors under her.