Claire looks at him for a moment before nodding her head, "Yeah, you know, testing the ability." She wasn't sure that she would ever look at it as being a masochist but perhaps it could be looked at that way. She always looked at it as making sure she was still human, because if she could feel the pain even for a second or two, she felt normal. It was a weird way to look at it but it was how she used to.

"Jump off of a high catwalk, cut myself, I've been shot...though that wasn't of my own choosing. I've walked into a huge fire, stuck my hand in boiling water....tried many different things to see if I would still heal and how quickly." She tilts her head to the other side a little, "It's weird, I know." She fidgets just a bit, "But I wanted to know how much I could take."