It's not until Tom's back at her side that she lowers the gun, still gripping it tightly but taking her finger from the trigger. While she's no stranger to killing, she's always had to strike opportunistically rather than engaging in that sort of stand off, and now that she's out of the situation she feels her heart pounding and her hands shaking, and she's unsure whether she'd have got a decent shot if she'd had to shoot to kill. It annoys her more than anything else - she resolves to practice with the gun as much as she can so that the strangeness of the weapon isn't an added factor there too.
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"What did he mean?"