"Who I am with my responsibilities is. Skitter." She sets the cup aside, because her tea is distinctly cold now and she's afraid she might break Shen Wei's delicate dish if she keeps it in her hands. "Which I guess is what they're getting at, but it's not like we'll ever get to lay that down, outside the Barge. I took up these responsibilities. It's not right to lay them down now.

"And planning for an after is just- I'm not Dinah, I can't see the future. I don't know what that after will look like, but it's never going to be less responsibility."