[she appreciates his offer, and curls more toward his body; it touches her to know so many people are willing to protect her, but it also pains her to know she'll live with the guilt if any of them give their lives to spare hers.

...she seems to be having a hard time coming up with an answer to mejojo's question, though. where to begin...]

Forgive me if this is hard to understand, but Minamoto and I are... Heroic Spirits. We were influential figures in history, whose souls have been granted kind of an immortality. We are summoned to fight wars for mages, so... dying more than once isn't strange for us. But we still feel pain, and our deaths feel just as real as the first.