It's a fair enough assumption, she supposes. Nods, slowly. "I suppose it is, if you want to take it that way. But... I know we all must die, at one point or another. That is what happens." The irony of her saying that is not lost on her. But she had never acted like she was untouchable. Even when Devi or Galahad did not want to hear it. 'Rani, please, do not say that. You cannot - ' Desperate, to have her live forever.

She could not shelter Devi from the truth of it, not now that she was grown and at her side, fighting these battles with her.

"But I... will not let go of it all, until I am ready to do so, at my own time, and if it is not my time but I still must - then I will go down hanging on to my last breath because I never knew how to do anything else."