[Well, after all of that he wouldn't put it past her to try doing that. That's for sure. Whether she'd be successful at that -- he's skeptical. He's not even sure she'd care about whether she won or lost, judging from her expression the answer to that question is no.

He's really tempted to chop her head again, though instead he claps his free hand to his forehead.]

Fuckin' hell. You're not gonna last if you keep up this kind of mindset.

[Sure, the end goal for all of them is technically death, but not the kind of death where you end up six feet underground.]

Part of Silver Court's motto is preservation. That's gonna include self-preservation, you idiot.