:...I don't know. Though I can damned well guess – you're a feisty one. But, I just get a pull to wherever feels right: 

...are one or more gods helping?

Delicate cough. :Rather likely, yes, given how I, er, came to be a sword instead of a person: 

I wasn't sure how to expect that to have come about; where I'm from sometimes swords are just people in their own right. What would you be doing with me if you got me?

:Quests to go help out women in trouble is the general idea: 

In any specific kind of trouble, or is my guess that you focus on women because your particular interest is sexual violence about right?

:Often that. Though there are plenty of non-sexual ways that men – it is, almost always, men – do wrong by women: 

Such as?

:Oh, lords beating their maidservants, young louts knocking down little old ladies in the street to steal their coin – just, in general, men like to take advantage of the fact that they're bigger and stronger, or better regarded in society as the ones who should be in charge, and all that: 

Have you considered associating yourself with an actual law enforcement outfit of some kind who'd appreciate tipoffs and superpowers instead of taking over the lives of various people without consulting them?

:What? Really?: A dusty laugh. :Last I remember being awake, wherever I was then, the supposed 'keepers of the law' were the worst louts of all of them: 

Well, a group of volunteers, at any rate.

:Hmmff. If you think you might know some interested volunteers, I might consider trying it out. Only way I know to find people is following the pull, but you don't want me and you'll probably yell at me again if I try for the spirited little Healer – also, she is rather young for it, and it's frowned upon to take Healers into battle: 

I will absolutely yell at you if you try to take anybody. I stress the "volunteer" part of "group of volunteers". I will ask. I assume this is a girls-only offer?

:Yes. I can try to learn some new tricks now that I'm awake, if I really must, but I'm not infinitely flexible: 

I'll talk to Savil and see if she knows anyone. Are you good enough at conferring superpowers that a horse-shaped person could wield you or is that a bridge too far?

:What? Care to explain - any of that sentence just there?: 

There's a local species of horse-shaped people! Some of them are female. They're called Companions. The image of a horse with a sword in her teeth is amusing but probably not actually workable, but I thought I'd ask.

:Hmm - doubt I could convey great swordfighting prowess that way, but are they generally mages or Healers? The other powers I can give people if they're not already equipped with them are Healing and magical protection: 

I don't think they are, no. They do tend to come paired with variously Gifted humans, though not invariably.

:Hmm. Well, if you do find volunteers, I'd be up for meeting the horse-shaped ones too. It does kind of matter that I get along with them: 

And going forward it will matter that they get along with you.

:Yes, miss: Though it comes along with the mental equivalent of an eyeroll. 

If you found some guy who had met a woman he liked the look of and was doing to her what you do...

:Oh: Need's mindvoice is much less sarcastic, and sounds...small. :I suppose I had never thought of it that way: