"Ah, so I wasn't completely off the mark... sorry you had to experience that as well, though."

[Not that there weren't some... eventual perks to such things, and-

Okay. Stopping that thought there, before her blush gets any worse.]

"So you are a fighter, too. And I can relate, when it comes to seeing a lot of fights."

[Sometimes she wonders if that's good, or bad to have witnessed so much, to have become accustomed to it and almost treat it as routine. She knows that her eyes darken a little at that thought, and she glances down at the paper work.]

"If nothing else, it's done the job of preparing me for this place... wherever this place is, of course. Still a lot to get used to."