From the Wall

She opens the gate and draws herself inside, wounded and still bound, and it shuts. Her own people meet her saying she sought both battle and guile, and that no shame has come on the family from it — the Shahnameh counts the trick to her credit alongside the fighting. Then she goes up onto the rampart, laughs, and calls down to Sohrab that Turks find no bride from Iran. And then she tells him what is coming: when word reaches the Shah, Rostam will stir, and against Rostam he cannot stand, and not one of his army will be left. She is the only person in the story who says it to his face.