Because I couldn’t feel pain before. Not like this. I was dead.

[She says it bluntly, because she doesn’t feel like there’s anything to hide there. She’d been dead. Had been dead for centuries as far as she knew. There’d been a constant wrenching pain in her chest and in her head, but—] Normal weapons couldn’t hurt me.

I’m bleeding. I don’t remember the last time I bled. [She holds her hands up to him, palms facing him so he could see the scrapes. Sae looked utterly bewildered by this fact and then blinks at the question.]

Oh— I think so. Probably. [...SHe says, but she hasn’t tried to stand up yet.]