[There's a long pause, quiet. When she speaks, her voice is quiet too -- still resolute, but with so much less of the charged rage running through it.]

Because I've already done it. Lived it.

And because if you didn't need us, you wouldn't have taken all the time to bring us here. If you didn't need us to trust you, you wouldn't have bothered with any of this.

Sometimes trust . . . means sacrifice.

[That last part sounds like she's first putting into words something that's lingered at the back of her mind for some time.]