She nods, and her shoulders sag a moment before she stands up straight once more.

"It gets tiring, doesn't it? I mean, how do you always stay ready? How do you manage to fight for what you must when you it's such a hard thing to do?"

She'd never ask such a thing in a lesson. She doesn't think about it much. She doesn't need to yet.

But this is a dream, and sometimes you can say things in dreams you'd never speak in the waking world.