I will not detail what was happening; it is enough to say that a young woman was in real danger, cornered by three larger men who believed no one was watching, and that my daughter understood in an instant exactly what she was looking at.

And my daughter, who is not large, and who was alone, and who had every reason in the world to keep walking and call for help from somewhere safe, did not keep walking.

She ran straight at them.

She put herself between three powerful young men and their victim, and she made noise, and she pulled at them, and she used her own body as a shield — and in the few seconds of confusion she created, the other young woman broke free and got away into the dark.

She escaped.