He was more correct than he knew in talking about places that swallowed you whole. And running away. She'd known and done both.

"Well, there's honor and then there's survival. Sometimes the second's more important than the first. Which probably goes against all kinds of codes or whatnot, but I've always been a survivor more than anything else."

She shrugged as she said it. She was a realist, and most peoples' idea of honor wasn't something that worked with that. She had her own code and she followed that. Everyone else could just deal with it.