[ She takes the sword back and fiddles with it for a long moment, head ducked. What can she say here? That she envies the kind of immortal that Venti and Zhongli are, in the sense that they can just roll with things? That getting upset over whatever losses she experienced is silly because it's probably happened to her a thousand times? She doesn't really want to be inhuman whatever strides she's made toward accepting it, or act like she's above humans either, but getting so overly emotional feels juvenile all the same when she's as old as she is. ]
...A lot of awful things can happen when you live a long time. I can't break open every time I hear a word that reminds me of one of them, or I'll never do anything else.
[ She's very aware that she just usurped this conversation too, which happens to her quite a lot and she hates that about herself. It makes her feel selfish and fragile, two things she absolutely doesn't want to be. ]
Re: witnesses ok
...A lot of awful things can happen when you live a long time. I can't break open every time I hear a word that reminds me of one of them, or I'll never do anything else.
[ She's very aware that she just usurped this conversation too, which happens to her quite a lot and she hates that about herself. It makes her feel selfish and fragile, two things she absolutely doesn't want to be. ]