from the Bannerfall panel (spoilers ahead):
Owen: "Katie, what led up to your character answering the final question from the Creaking King?"
Katie: "I think it was a really nice way to sum up my character... me and Kitty, we had a really good conversation beforehand... it was something along the lines of 'but I want to protect you, I want to make sure you're okay,' and Kitty goes, 'then you'd be just as bad as your brother for not choosing yourself.' so that was in her monologue going through the decisions in the end... it was a great way to wrap up my character, and the fact that she chose herself. it was also a saving grace, I think, for Nom, because if she were to switch it around and take on the curse, I think Nom's character would forever blame himself-
Nom: "he would have been pissed."
Katie: "because it was his fault, inevitably, that he ate the resin."
Nom: "oh yeah, completely."
Katie: "she knew that the best thing to do was to choose herself. she has a found family, she found people who truly saw her for her and believed in her, and she didn't want to give that up for anything. but that doesn't take away from the fact that she did love her brother."
