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Baghodat did not understand a word she said regarding her mention of a person she was after. When the fight finally ended she asked if he was okay with losing a little treasure trove of jewels. "What on earth are you talking about?" Staying in the position he was in, he pulled out a photo to look at it. "As for where I learned how to fend off assailants, my cousin, Aodha, taught me. This was before our whole family was massacred during a Bible Study, three years ago. Back before that happened, Aodha was as kind as could be, and plenty mischievous. We would pick on each other often and do all sorts of things. However, since that massacre, which he was there to witness due to heading to that place to pick up his brother, he has become depressed. Even to this day, he finds it hard to cope with the loss. Nobody even knows why the group of thugs killed everyone, even the children, that attended the Bible Study. I'd sometimes hear him ranting at night at how he was not strong enough to protect everybody. Since that fateful night our entire family died, he has been my guardian. This photo was taken a year before it all happened."

Once Baghodat flipped the photo around to show her, it featured a happy Baghodat and Aodha roughhousing in a relative's swimming pool while some of the female cousins looked on with laughter. The particular moment captured by the photo was where Aodha had Baghodat in a noogie, both of them having the most mischievous of grins.

"If only there was a way I could help him emotionally. None of our relatives would want him to be so upset for the rest of his life. If he is entertaining thoughts of revenge, following through on that would disgrace everyone's memory. Not to mention, he would be in serious danger. I don't want that for him."