"Like being a Guardian?" she said. "Except ... it's different. We were ... we wanted to save the world. We had to keep Yunie alive, not because she was paying us, but because she was gonna ... no, you know, I didn't become a Guardian to help Yunie save the world. I didn't. Yunie said she needed me, so I had to keep her safe. Alive, as long as I could, even if the end was gonna be her death. Maybe I could talk her out of it. And she said ... even if I couldn't, if she was gonna die ... it could be on Gagazet, and it'd be all for nothing, or it could be against Sin, and she would've really done it, and if she had to die, couldn't I help her make sure it wasn't ... wasted?"

She had no idea why she was telling him this. She didn't mean to. It just seemed to spill out of her.