They're both terrible, when you get down to it. Different people would answer differently. But I think there's a kind of comfort in saying yes. Yes, I chose this, even if the only other choices were worse.

[She presses her lips together in a tight smile, realizing that now she's talking about putting her soul into her sword.]

If I say that in this I see myself, and a lot of people I've known, in you, is that easier to accept? We're all of us very different, but there are patterns, sometimes.

['I see you being like me and admire that' certainly sounds conceited, but she doesn't think Celehar will go directly to that conclusion.]