"It is." Also, stated frankly. She senses Aloy's curiosity, and as such gives into it. What she recites is a thoughtful list, one that she seems to be building as her experiences allow. From mimicry, observation, no real attachment to any of the behaviors she describes.

"Food and drink tastes of ash. You crave blood. You are drowning, the air you breathe hurts to take, but you take it out of habit until the habit dies alongside you. You cannot sleep because your mind has forgotten everything but how to stop life, and how to make life miserable to live. Your life, the lives of other's. And though you don't sleep, shadows plague idle thoughts. You start to crave suffering -- and the suffering of others is all that soothes your own."

And that -- that was a free existence. She does not bother to mention the bondage under the Lich King. No one had really asked her about it (any of it) before -- no one but The Darkling, and Ilde. She finds her fury at his slumber all over again. "It is not a fate I would wish on many."