"Yes, it's a signal. We're still in Ven's reach hypothetically, I'm trying to get you further away and safer while she's distracted." She turns to Azazuka, keeping an eye on the bowl. "So. First. And I haven't gone over this from this side before, so please pardon any slips. We talked briefly about learning how to do, ah, what I do. And I want to expand on what that means. My job usually means I have to do dirty, unpleasant, and spiritually unclean things. I get hurt regularly. There is always the possibility that I will die somewhere like that castle and nobody will know or care who I was. Winning looks like getting chased through a jungle by guards that want to kill you or worse. Losing means being stuck in a hole with no light while somebody else decides what to do with you." 

She blinks once, deliberate. Break the idea into two.

"But. It means that you'll always have some, low chance of getting out of anything. Even if it's between certain death and near certain death, there's always that slim chance that somebody trips on a rock. The rope frayed in just the right place. So that's the upside." She sips her tea, checking to make sure nobody's paying attention. "There's one other problem. You're going to need to learn to trust me. And you're going to need to actively chose this, even when it looks like I'm doing nothing more than trying to hurt you, break you, or kill you. My sitfu threw me off a bridge once. I might do the same to you, if you want to learn what I know."

Another blink and slow, deliberate sip of tea. Mmmm. That knight ordered good stuff.

"And then there's the other danger. You're going to need to find somebody or something to hold to, some reason that you are doing this that isn't just self interest, because if you just want to learn this for yourself then you will turn into a monster." And I may have to kill you, she does not add. "Your reasons will be different from my reasons. Which is fine. But there will come a point, if you get fully trained, where you're going to learn to not trust me. Because I'll have taught you but I'm not your elder and I won't be treating you as an asset, so I'm neither controlling you nor responsible for you, and that means if there's a conflict between my ideals, what drives me to do this, and you? It's not even close."

She leans back from where she'd been focused intensely on Azazuka. "So if you want to not have to deal with the many, many downsides of what I can teach, I have no objections. I'm getting you to safety either way. But I want you to know what you're getting into, before you commit."