He seems to curl in on himself in increments, and she's silent for a moment, until he shakes his head, and she's good enough with body language - and he's human-like enough - that she gets it. Part of it. She's probably never going to get all of it.

"That's why I think you should try a non-lethal approach," she says finally, and her tone is almost...businesslike, the tone of somebody who's seeing a problem and trying to figure out a solution on the fly. "If you're not killing anyone who attacks you, other people on board stop thinking you're the bad guy - they won't be threats because they don't feel threatened. And if anyone does threaten you, they start to look like the threat to everybody else. Hopefully that means they'll stop, right?

"You need to..." She was fidgeting, hands coiling around one another, but now she gestures for the right words. "Be more creative about threats now." Pause. "I don't know if I'm making sense."