"I suppose so." Yunlan kept his tone noncommittal with an effort. The creature had been unconscious before Chocolat moved in to beat its head to a pulp, but the sheer brutality of the action still left him unsettled.

And reevaluating her, not entirely to her benefit. Determination and willingness to kill when necessary were good. Smiling while she flattened the skull of a helpless creature was not.

Nonetheless, he'd been just as willing to kill it, and he couldn't judge too harshly. He skirted the corpse, heading for the lab door. "We should get that door back in place -- leaving it hanging open is going to let a lot more radiation out than we want." As evidence, he raised his arm, where the wrist computer chattered urgently away.