He deliberately waits a beat before putting the CiD away, picking up his drink, and returning to the table.

"There are non-combatants associated with us," he says after a moment of looking at her. Though classifying Barbara as a 'non-combatant' is perhaps slightly disingenuous, it's not like she'll be out on rooftops with them. "They won't be doing any fighting, let alone any killing, if the rest of us do our jobs right. There wouldn't be an initiation ritual where we make you kill someone. But we can't have another night like that night, when the seconds it takes to come to an agreement about something might cost us our lives."