I can take blood, and most certainly do not care very much as to losing my own.

[ She says nothing of secrets - no doubt, given whatever has been discussed whilst she was... opting not to bother with the land of the waking - he had one or two of her own now. It was alright, she tells herself, it wasn't what mattered, her pride didn't matter.

She gives him a look, sceptical the most polite term for it. ] But you? I dare think you'd go pale at the sight of that much blood.