[ She looks to Gaunt first, then she looks down at the sand. ] A "conduit" is not what I would call myself -- but the divine made human. It was of my choice -- Athena's choice -- to surrender to the mortal cyle of life, under the one objective of leading men to victory.
But you would be right -- there are... many things I am not allowed to do...
[ Looks down at her hand and the unfading flower bracelet around her wrist. ] My time will come -- but all that I experience in this short life, all of those people that I have loved and lost stay with me for as long as Athena lives.
[ The gentleness is easily returned. She smiles as one who is fully aware of her fate. ]