[ Gray obediently sits up ramrod-straight. She turns over an attempt at a defense in her mind, but gives up straightaway. ]

Um. Then at least let me say I wish you didn't have to experience that...? People should only have to feel one death per lifetime.

[ As morbid as it might be, Gray wishes now that she'd died a faster death. At the very least, it could have been a more heroic death... Instead, it was (in her mind) as slow and pathetic as could be. The belated realization that she had an unexpected audience burns at her cheeks. ]