[Rin's fingers ghost to her throat, tracing the fabric of the high collar that covers it.]

I'm a mage, so I know better than anyone that I can fight tooth and nail, and the chance I'll die will still exist regardless.

[She drops her hand. These words are spoken with conviction.]

If it happens, it happens, but I intend to do everything I can to survive, all the same. I like living too much to roll over and die.