"I know you didn't, I just..."  She started, then stopped.  "It's just me, being me, being selfish.  I know you want to protect me and stuff like that from the fallout this job could have," after all, killing someone wasn't a thing that went completely unnoticed.  Mostly?  In this day and age, sure, people got killed and most of metahumanity didn't know (or care), but it was rare that someone died without at least one third party knowing.  "But I'm not some little lost girl who needs protecting!  I'm my own person, I can take care of myself!"<br/><br/>Her little outburst was as quickly quashed as it had started.  "No, it's okay...besides, I think I know of something that I can do if I need to when the time comes.  Let's just get to where we need to get going to, and go from there."<br/><br/>Well, she did at least look a little visibly brighter...