It was almost as if he was disappointed by her lack of confidence or ability to understand what he was suggesting, he would take a shallow sigh after a steady breath inward and try to rephrase.
— Zoe, I'm not going to take on all the guards in broad daylight and under fair conditions. We're going to make our move well past the bastard's bedtime and I am going to avoid detection at all costs. I'm confident in being able to sneak around, which is why I'm doing this alone. Most of the hired help was slaughtered when he laid siege to the quarters on Lentini. Not that they could keep up in any case.
In his mind, he was running through the sequence of things. She would drop him there at a sufficient enough altitude to evade scanner detection and he would get to work once his feet were on the ground. With his ally in the air, he could have a bird's eye view of the compound and where all the personnel were concentrated. Priority number one to ensure he had this advantage was to quietly go about disabling air defenses, namely the flak and tachyon batteries spread around the main building. But it was likely that a security fail-safe existed to prompt somebody about them being deactivated, so perhaps changing their friendly recognition codes would provide for a more chaotic distraction.
— If I can reprogram all the sentry turrets to recognize anyone that doesn't bear our identifiers as a hostile, and then cause a distraction that prompts immediate and coordinated action. Then his personal security will be too busy with attrition to pay heed to my entrance. It buys me time to get in, kill the fool and then exfiltrate. The distraction will be the fun part, you'll see.
For the first time since she'd met him, his lips cracked up into a smirk, but it was likely in response to thoughts of mass-murder rather than anything genuinely amusing.
