[Watching Lloyd and Kratos, Raine feels almost as though she ought to be somewhere else. There's naked emotion in Kratos, and she already had him measured as someone who displays that only rarely; and as for Lloyd, she can barely imagine what he's feeling.]

[She looks away from them, and taps her staff on the ground, as though to call the attention of the other young men back to her.]

Use your minds, all of you. My companion has already shielded several of us at cost to himself, and none of you have come to harm. The primary destruction is coming from Cruxis. If you cannot trust that much, then trust that I would not ask you to lay down your weapons without good reason.

[Raine hopes. Their trust in her is why Kratos wanted her with him in the first place; it's almost all she has to trade on. But she knows these boys, has taught them over the years, and they should remember at least some of what she has said about observation and logical reasoning.]

[Should.]