[It’s hard to miss that concern, and Gavial can’t help the knee-jerk reaction to brush it off. She’s here, she’s back up and running, it’s all fine in the end. But knowing that death would be coming for her—in a more permanent way—much sooner than most others thanks to her Oripathy means that even before experiencing the ephemeral form it comes in for Shard-bearers here, she’d learned to accept death for the inevitable fact that it is.

Not everyone is so resigned to it, though. So she backtracks a little with a very brief sense of gratefulness for the concern, as necessary or unnecessary as either of them might see it. Better to leave it all unspoken, and focus on the rest.]

…Yeah. Yima mentioned they reminded her of someone she once knew. Wouldn’t be surprised at this point if it really had been.