"I wish I could trust you. But a savior complex is not a compelling enough argument, no." Because you can't save everyone, and at some point you're forced to weigh options, and Ava knows hers won't rank highly against triage. She has no reason to expect otherwise.

"But the Captain of all people could use it against me. Tell me that I owe him or that I should be thankful. Ask things of me, ask me to act against the rest of your plans knowing my life hangs in the balance. Yet he hasn't. Quite the opposite, really." She hesitates. "No, I don't have an alternative."