Urgent shuffling which hopefully takes them out of earshot before she says, "Did you hear him? Didn't sound very reasonable! There's a time for talking and then there's a time for shooting the enemy in the face when they're talking crazy talk and doing freaky magic and supposed to not be able to see!"

If she'd hesitated the last time, Lauren would have been dead and Bo would have freaked out and-- ... Okay, Kenzi's not exactly sure what would have happened after that because that was around the time she woke up near a stupid fountain. Point is, guy was trying to kill Dr. icequeen and Kenzi shot him. End of story. Lauren stayed alive.

She was trying to do the same thing for Kobra. It didn't work. Bad decision. Luckily the psychopath was feeling pretty damn merciful.

"But hey, we're not dead! So really, it probably couldn't have ended any better than this, right? This is definitely the preferred outcome right here." She hefts the crossbow over her shoulder and her hopeful smile turns into an apologetic frown.

"Sorry, dude. I panicked. I'm not actually hero material."