[ This is... interesting. She'd thought to herself a moment ago, that Metal could be more introspective than you might imagine at first glance, but this is different than she'd expected. Maybe making comparisons like that is inevitable when you're surrounded by others with whom your differences are so stark and impossible to ignore. Maybe someone in Metal's position would have no choice but to become a little introspective, regardless of how they started out. ]

... I'm not the kind who thinks believing on its own is some kind of magic antidote. Even if I someday decided to believe I could do something physically impossible, that doesn't magically make it true. But I think... when you're so fixated on believing you can do something, that single-minded fixation makes you see opportunities someone else might dismiss.