"I'm sure we will." There was some exasperation in her tone at that though. "We seem to give all of our foes a fair few more chances than they deserve, but we've always tried to find the peaceful way out."

Looking down, she flexed her wrist a few times to test that her hidden blade wasn't damaged by the recent athletics. All told it looked like the mechanism was still working just fine. "But it will likely come to a fight. At least he's certainly not going to stand down if we can't prove our worth. But we also need to put an end to things if it seems like there's no other way."

She glanced at him and smiled. "If you don't think you can take another person's life, don't worry. There are those of us here who can take a bit more blood on our hands. Especially so others don't have to."