"No, he's going to serve as a warning to the other two fools on his team so I don't have to waste the rest of my day tracking them down." She snapped her mouth shut, chagrin flashing across her face before she really registered the surprisingly positive response. A pair of large, deep green eyes narrowed up at him suspiciously.

"You...aren't going to say I shouldn't attack my own 'allies' or that I should have tried to talk it out?" she wanted to know. That was how the teachers at the Academy had reacted.