"No, just Xena," she insists, though it isn't true. And it's not that she's trying to deny the actions she's already admitted to. It's that she sees all those other villages that she's burned and all those other people that she's hurt as a means to an end - as something that she does to Xena, and because of Xena, and nothing more.

"I make big war on Xena by-- by with other people. You think I care about my armies? You think they matter to me, you think they give me satisfaction?"

This last bit comes out in rough, aggressive Greek, her fists balled at her sides.

"I don't care," she says in English, trying her hand at translating this sentiment. "I are a leader, but I don't care. I don't care soldiers, I don't care Theodorus."