Part of her wanted to shrink back from his words, to follow the instinct to run when things got tough, but that wasn't an option now. She'd been through too much.

"That's not what I meant," she snapped back, raising her head to glare at him as her stronger instinct to fight won out over running. "Of course I care about going back. I have to know if it worked, if my family is still alive." Some of the steel leaked out of her voice as she continued, "I apologize, things have been... I'm not usually like this."

Seeing her life flash before her eyes as the Sentinels had barged into the temple hadn't exactly done her mental state any favors.