"At the very least it sounds like you have courage. This place...it's been under siege for awhile. Courage may be in short supply. Exhaustion isn't great for maintaining it, y'know?" The grim words are paired with eating more of this cake; River's at least partly aware of the absurd contrast but she will not, you see, be ceasing the eating of the cake. Some deep animal part of her that has been food insecure her entire adult life wants this plate clean before she does anything else.