Ami, on the other side, is from a society that prizes honour above all and where picking physical fights over insults is the norm - though of course only in a strictly regulated way. You need to provide an outlet for the pent up rage inherent in her species that doesn't reduce their numbers through infighting or otherwise damages their cause.

There are others who would have been less restrained than her. Most of them younger than her. Self-restraint is one of the things that lets you reach as old an age as she has achieved. (A good pack and luck are the others).

"Perhaps. Some home realms appear to be more similar to this one than others."