He'd reacted like she'd thought, but it still felt better to have said it. Allenby's eyes narrowed when he spoke, though. "Don't tell me what to do," she snapped. "Fightin' a real war isn't what I want, but it's what I have to do in order to save Earth. Not just mine, but yours and all the other different worlds that got destroyed."

And then after that, if she survived all of this, she could go back to how things were. Fighting because she wanted to and being satisfied with the outcome regardless of her nation's goals, and befriending people from other nations as she fought. Without killing anyone.