[But Mitchell sees that flinch, and marks it--he knows, it's a predatory instinct to see the weakness and go for it--and he stays slumped against the wall. His grin has very little amusement to it.]

And if you've got t' use force, then so much the better. Yeah? Or don't they have rules, in your security--or because I'm a vampire, and a threat, it's all right t' keep me like this? And for how long are you going t' hold me here? Until I'm not a threat any longer, until the lives of everyone on this ship are guaranteed?