"No, thank you." Barbara was glad that she wasn't the only one Howard snorted at and talked down to. She still wasn't used to the idea of a teenager being so...forceful and angry.

"You should have learnt a long time ago that there's no such thing as impossible," she told Ian with a light smile. After everything they'd been through, it was slightly surprising that he still insisted that everything followed his science and that was the end of it.

Though Zouichi's way of thinking was being labeled paranoia, Barbara thought that it was, in a sense, practical thinking should the very worst happen. But she kept quiet for the moment.