[Her gaze flicks disdainfully down to his hand when he points at her, and she goes to bat it out of her face.]

Having status or whatever doesn't actually protect people. Kings and politicians and shit still get killed, people have contingency plans for when that shit happens. The only person it really ends up affecting on a functional level is their immediate family, and sometimes not even then.

[She takes another sip and puts her beer down.] But that doesn't make life worthless. Just because you can kill someone and not give a shit about it, doesn't mean everyone else is as fucking hollow.