I've got skills you need.

[ She continues to explain gently but firmly, not a teenager arguing that they're an adult, but an adult laying out the training she's received. ]

One of those skills happens to be finding the enemy before the enemy finds me. Another is reacting to the first sign of an attack to minimize damage. If I'm careless enough to be spotted I still have to be slow enough to get hit, and crossbows are much slower than bullets.

Sameen has Marine training, I think. They teach you to fight. I was taught to make sure nobody dies. That includes you, me, and everyone else.