[She does smile this time.] You know, I punched a guy your size in the side of the head for trying to keep me out of a life like this, once. That was before I arrested him.

[She reaches up to touch the scratch the knife left in his chest with one fingertip.] This is my life. You're a part of it. You didn't bring me into it, Bruce. A bridge troll did that when I was barely twenty. My dad did it when I was just a kid. Would being ignorant be better?