[A brief nod.] If I was trying, I could kill a man in...three, four seconds, just by touching him. Instantly, with a kiss. If I was making no effort to restrain or sharpen my abilities, the average person wouldn't survive a minute of physical contact. Ordinarily much less.

[She shrugs.] I've learnt to control my body chemistry, but I don't consider that to render me safe. Every part of me is poisonous. Anyone with whom I'm even remotely intimate would start to suffer from the cumulative effects of that, over time.