I have no desire to harm you, don't worry. And it's Noriko. Ashida Noriko. [ She waits patiently for the coughing to subside, and when he wobbles she reaches out a hand, ready to steady him or break his collapse if need be. He has a crutch, yes, but she doesn't know which way he'll fall and if it will be useful. ] Why don't you sit? There's no particular reason to stand just to talk.

As for the other... I come from a place where people do not merely look down on us. It's not just that we are considered to be less intelligent, less, physically capable, less than perfect, or even standard. We are thought less than worthy of living, of existing. There is no mistaking the aim of the people who do not like us: they want us all dead. They have tried to ensure that happens. For some of us, they have succeeded.

Death while trying to convince someone to change an opinion only results in death: your own, usually. I do not want to die.