"Because it was either issue a formal apology for trying to take Barnet and accept the conditions of no hostilities... or have Redbright and Daybreak strike against us here in Enfield, too."

The stakes were the greatest she could imagine-- life or death. If she wanted to live to fight another day, she had to accept the shackles. Not much of a way to live, but it was a life. It was a chance to change things later.