"I figured as much or you'd be back there in that too tight, much too constrictive uniform listening to Shepherd and others informing you of your new life's goal of fighting their war when I would much rather have you fighting mine."

He pauses for a moment.

"If I was waging a war here. Which I'm not. Yet."

He suspects one day it's going to come to it, and sooner than later if they don't stop throwing things much too close to his fears at him.

"As for your skills, yes. Especially by those that kidnapped us to use against the other cities kidnapping people. Hence why I think it's a bad idea."

And that's what matters, isn't it?