[ she settles, looking as though she might apologize politely, if maybe not sincerely. but eventually, she answers. ]

I'm just wearied, I'm afraid. [ it could sound like a dismissal, but she doesn't mean it as such. ] Like a rag that only holds so much water, I can only have so much wrung out of me in a day.

[ it's been draining more than physically, and it leaves her without much left to cry or get angry about, no matter how horrifying what they've been through might have been. ]