The only way to get out is to graduate. [She doesn't say it with any sort of judgment, without the intent of discouraging him from doing something potentially harmful. It's fact, nothing more...she's in too much pain to let herself be too connected to feeling, and his advice is helping.

She's a warden. He's an inmate. Being harder, being colder...it's at least more comfortable, if not a solution.]

You're here because you died, Cold. In your world...graduation gives you a second chance. To go back home, like nothing ever happened, look after your people...if you want to get back to them safely, you need to work the system.