[Nods a little, curling up into herself some more and going quiet for a long moment]
No... I get that. [Shakes her head] There was a war going on back home, too. I ran away for a while because I -- something happened to me, years ago. There was a group of people who were going to kill an entire race of people, unless I turned myself in and...
And so I did. [And they tortured her, meant to kill her, but she fought back from it at the cost of almost everything.] I wasn't the same after that. It's -- I still dream about it.