Kitty has been quiet. Troubled by all of it, to be sure. Immortality like this seems a dreadful thing, a thing to hide from anyone and everyone - because how easy would it be to exploit this? To turn it into a wicked weapon, a terrible thing used to just deepen all the inequalities and injustices of life? If the magicians of her world knew of this immortality, they'd use it to extend their rule a thousand years - which is a hideous thought, considering that progress gets made only as each magician dies. Corypheus, here, would do the same.

It's Lakshmi's direct address that brings her out of her brooding. She doesn't understand, entirely, why she deserves the truth more than any other, but like hell she's going to question Lakshmi's logic. Because this is something that she does want to know, because it's something to safeguard and protect and keep from getting into the wrong hands. As for these others, though...The logic for sharing it with them sounds a lot less sound. Sharing something with someone because they're a mage is basically insanity, to her ears.

Well. It's Lakshmi's judgment, isn't it. So - "Why can't she?" Kitty asks, voice clear and steady. "She's protected it this far. And it's not like telling us about this makes her less capable of protecting it."