"Nothing," she says, staring at the nothing in the doorway. Which isn't really much of an answer, so she kind of realizes it a moment later and says, eyes shaded by the dark but glinting just faintly through it, "I was in the forest. Bad people tried to hurt me."

It's kind of true. Something, someone, was after her.

It was just her father. And he was killing her father.

And she killed her father, and then watched her father die.