[Well. She hardly told him this to garner his sympathy. Integra emits something of a soft sigh, thinking of how telling Phoenix the circumstances surrounding her death would only cause him more grief. For now, she would abstain.]

Please, it was nothing more than a temporary impairment. [She tells him in earnest.] As a soldier, death becomes your constant companion. I have long parted with the fear of it. [Fretting? Absolutely not.]

Life is not expendable, sir. [Weird death rules or not.] And I would never have been willing to sacrifice my own for someone I believed unworthy.

[Just who could that have been...?]