That is exactly where she expected him to go and also exactly where she didn't want him to. He can feel a wave of palpable frustration roll through the connection and this time she doesn't try to rein it in. She should. It's playing right into what he wants and what he knows always works--

She cannot let this become another's problem. Too many lives have already been lost to that cause. But she also cannot simply let him have what he wants. Entertaining Zenos' nihilism and bloodlust is not her priority.

She'd thought she finally...finished it all. Hells, he'd come to her aid in the end and she had returned that act by finally engaging him on the battlefield as equals. Was it all for naught?

"--This is not a game, Zenos! It never has been!"