[ it's a challenge, and there's a certain sense this woman is more than she seems -- she's had some run-ins, here, which proved one's appearance is just that: an appearance -- so don thinks to ready for some sort of combat and then thinks better. plenty of people have asked her something on the same line without following it up with a sword at her throat, here, maybe because there's a lack of them to be found. ]

I am. For even if I fall, I merely must stand up again, no? It matters not how many times I am knocked down, so long as I can lift my head I am able to rally another day! Just like the Fixers whom I have read about, the stories I have been told.

[ fictitious or not, they're a source of aspiration and inspiration for her. ]

Also, I should like to correct thee on one thing: I am no child.