"You are a breath away from being killed every moment you are here in this city," she replies, coolly. "Seeing our faces is irrelevant to this fact, and it has nothing to do with respect."

From the side of the group, Mello chimes in: "It's about caution - security." Unhurried, he makes his way to join Marie at the front of the crowd. "Even with the safeguards we have in place, it's not a hundred percent guaranteed that we're not being monitored. One of you could even be a machine - unlikely, but still possible."