She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.
I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.
The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.
Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom--so deep ...