Do you think so? I know there have been two instances where I have exhausted myself...and I don't think, under the circumstances, they were terribly irresponsible as much as they were...miscalculations.

[Here she folds her hands, to avoid fisting them.]

Xion, I was taught and trained not to exhaust myself. To know my own limits and do everything that I could within them, except in serious emergencies - and even then, depending on the situation. I like to think that I still know those limits. That I know when to rest and that I try to take my own advice about such things.

[There is a heavy weight labeled Duty that feels like it's pressing down on her heart, now. The kind that comes with failing it.]

Maybe I haven't learned as well as I thought.