"That's not the same thing." She returned the faint hint of a smile he gave her with an almost-smile of her own. Alex was good at what she did, but that didn't mean she liked fighting and killing. Those were simply the only things she knew how to do.

The fact that he laughed suggested he wouldn't mind her pushing a little. "Do you really care about all this dark magic stuff? Enforcing whatever they tell you to enforce?"