"Exactly--" Elizabeth has been mostly listening, trying to piece all of this very new information together and reconcile it with a weapon that could destroy an entire town. But she comes from a place where deadly things come from stolen information.

"If it was used to destroy the entire population of the Cultists, that might be one thing--" One thing she doesn't want to consider the moral repercussions of right now. "--but if it's used, then they reverse-engineer the same thing when they arrive to claim whatever is left, we could be facing the same thing inside Luceti."