He barely flinched, but glared at her from under his brows. "I hardly have a choice, and neither do you. You can either accept my training and have a fighting chance in there, or get thrown in defenseless and die. How would you have it?" His tail flicked in annoyance. "If I have no one to fight, then all of the people you met today will lose their home." He didn't care to explain more than that. "And besides, you won't have to kill most of them. Humans are expensive, and their owners will probably pull them out before they're dead. Probably."