Protecting people who couldn't protect themselves? I think it's more important.

[ Is it really a matter of heroics and being noble, or just the right thing to do? Who knows how many casualties there would have been if there had been nothing between those people and guns firing freely.

He takes a sip of water himself. ]

I imagine you look brilliant with a blade. Ruthless, maybe, but mastery of skill ... I would like to see that very much, sometime.