Kotone considers her answer carefully, briefly debating how candid she should be before deciding that actually, keeping her 'just happy to be here' demeanor up with this vampire would actually be very, very stupid. So just for a moment, she lets the mask fall.

"I know it won't be easy. It'll probably be more difficult than anything I've ever dealt with. But it's better than what I've had all this time even so." She eyes the vampire speculatively. "I realize this is ironic coming from a Foundling, but I'm tired of being shunted around like so much luggage without any say in the process. I want to be strong enough to make my own path - not get dragged along on someone else's until they get sick of me and throw me to someone else. I know that sounds grandiose, and I know I'll have to work my way up to that, if I can work my way up to that. But I won't know I can until I take the chance."

Left unsaid but implied: And I never want to be this vulnerable again.