"Good, because I won't be what Ares wants me to be. Not anymore," she says. "So tell me, Penual. Why should I accept you as my patron? Who will you want me to be? If you've studied me well, you should know that I won't fight for a cause that isn't right."

The old Xena would have fought for power, and glory, and death itself. But she wasn't the old Xena any more.