I pray that you give me a reason to be the last. I wish you on no one. [ She will not lie to him about it either. Though she does chose to drop the subject there and listen to his concerns. ]

I'll answer your question. [ Because if she's lucky, he may give her an answer to her worries without even realizing. She doubts she will be that lucky. ] The short answer is that I will bring night because I have to. There is no universe where I could ever accept failure being an option. No amount of lack of sleep or injuries will stop me from that.

The long answer is that my current state is because I'm trying to avoid thinking too deeply on something I overheard. Hard to think about it if I don't give myself time to. [ She rubs her jaw and furrows her brows as she struggled to find more words that sufficed to explain why she kept herself so busy, wearing herself down to the point where she was willingly playing nice with an Ascian she trusted about as far as she could throw. ] Distracting myself got away from me, I'll say that, but as you saw very briefly, I run on anger and spite. Should something actually be on fire, I will likely get angry about it and find some sort of energy to do something about it.