[ River's a little more durable than the average human, herself. But then, to be fair, she's only partly human, whether she's admitting it that day or not. Today, she's somewhat torn. She hasn't thrown herself into the heaviest of the fighting, but she's hardly apologetic for the role she has played in the violence. A little more trained psychopath, a little less Doctor's wife.

She glances his direction. ] You really haven't known him long, have you?

[ Which conveniently sidesteps his question as it relates to her. ]

But The Doctor doesn't approve, no. He's lost too much, and he cares too much. I wouldn't ask it of him.

[ She knows, perhaps better than anyone, what the Doctor is capable of, at their darkest. She knows, too, the cost.

As for her, ] I was born into it, you could say.