There were not many girls in the Border camp at all, and Myra was special. Elliot had wonderful suspicions about Myra. She was very short and had dark hair on her upper lip. Elliot had seen dwarves on the day people had signed up for training camp, and never after: it made sense to him that they had been seeing off someone who had signed up. Also, Myra had an elaborately carved axe under her desk. Not that Elliot was making any judgments based on that fact.