Martha let out a breath when the dalek powered down, and she didn't even know if that was a good sign or a bad one. The dalek's weapon and plunger were both turned downward, and that was good enough for her at the moment.

She still had the gun if there was the return of the blue light to the eyestalk.

Her brow pulled up when he gripped her like that, and Martha frowned at him; if he'd shaken her, it would have been a fight like the two of them had never seen. Thankfully he didn't, and Martha watched him for a moment.

"If I hadn't, you would have been killed." Simply spoken, and entirely truthful. "And we got lucky, if this was a regenerated dalek, it would have killed you."