Why do you think that you are so fragile as to be immediately changed by this? I understand what has altered between us. Where it comes from. Perhaps it is no different for you, if you're willing to examine it for that. We will change because change happens. And we will not give up who we are in the process, because we're too stubborn to let such a thing happen.

[Perhaps she is too rational, or too obsessed with control, to allow herself to see it any other way. But this is where she has come to stand regarding the matter. Lexa refuses to live in fear. She refuses.]