He’d woken her that day and told her where he was heading, what he was going to do, and who else would be there. She had immediately begged to go, asked him not to do it, to spare them all. He had only grinned, and said once he got back home, they would celebrate. She had tried to seduce him and pull him back into bed, praying it would work so that he would stay and forget about the carnage he would inevitably inflict. For the first time in their marriage he rejected her and left, stationing a guard outside their room so that she might not try to leave. 