[Tazendra herself was having a problem adjusting to being the only one of her species here (and insisting that she was human and all you others aren't wasn't winning her friends). Add into her frustration at suddenly losing the majority of her magic (which she assumed was due to drawing on a new power source) and her sword -- as it had been left in her home world, and she was in a bad mood.]

[But not bad enough to be uninterested in another person with some martial skill, even as she forced back the part of her mind that thought of anyone not of the Empire as a barbarian, to get a fair assessment.]

Well...