His defiant explanation doesn't come as a surprise and her gaze returns to him, an eyebrow raised in perhaps more judgement than she is intending. "Not for the man you killed," she points out when he stops, the only time her voice takes on a sharp edge. "Not for the future he would have contributed to. And perhaps it wasn't just him, perhaps there were guards or scientists whose lives were easier ended than redirected?" That's what Gabriel had done during his attack on Romac. Not that she holds Rush to the same standards, and she shakes her head softly.

"I don't care to judge whether it was necessary. But in my universe I see the infinite number of potential paths anyone might take, and I know there is always another option." She meets the challenge in his eyes with a calm, searching look. "And so do you, I think." Someone who genuinely believes in a fact generally doesn't feel the need to restate it quite as often as he has done.