" You need me.'
'Jeru needs you more! And it is not safe. You aren't a sword. You aren't a weapon. Remember? What is something happens to Kjell, and I'm a bloody bird? Will you lead the men into battle alone? You will stay here, and you will do as I say!'
He was so adamant. So sure. So cold and hard. Telling me what to do. But I was a Teller. And I would not be told. "

― Amy Harmon , The Bird and the Sword (The Bird and the Sword Chronicles, #1)