...If you wish to hear it, Lancer. I would not deny my friend and a fellow knight such a simple request.

[And she recites her story. How, as far back as she could remember, she was trained in knighthood. She practiced martial and liberal arts under the best of tutors that her mother could find. She memorized all the rules of chivalry by heart. And she hid her face behind an iron mask as per mother's orders...]

[In the middle of the story, she stops.]

I was never a child then. I was never small or helpless. Because...

[Her expression falls.]

I was...born really different from other people.