"Because I was Seelie, I think, and the Unseelie were trying to stop us from saving the dragon from under Redgate. I wasn't hurt at all, it was mostly just... Unpleasant. I've suffered far worse."

She doesn't think this is the time to tell Dorian that she is a veteran of both war and torture, used to the feeling of pain coursing through her, trying to suffocate her from the inside out, branding her in a scar that had only healed this year.