I... I don't like to talk about it, but... seeing what happened to me kind of, it... it sort of messed me up for a while. [ she gets up and grabs her arm, taking a couple of steps away. ] It's like my spark was suddenly snuffed again. And I felt lost. I need a reason to keep on marching forward and... maybe this Lady Death thing has become a bit more personal. I don't like how things are run. Death is... fuck, it's traumatizing on it's own and then, like, you get a nightmare and a corruption and a fucken pat on the ass. I hate it. I hate her.

[ she takes a couple of uneven breaths to try to relax. ] ...and then I have people here that I could never abandon. [ squeezes her arm. ] Like you, and stuff.