"Truthfully, your priorities are right. Anything that tries to hurt me is going to find out exactly why that's a very bad idea. Your car is simply subject to whatever whims the driver and passengers subject to it to. Besides, the car has nothing to prove at this point."

Not that M- is really acting like a woman with a lot to prove. If anything, she's calm, waiting with a gently curled energy, like a big cat napping before a hunt. She stays that way until they reach the stopping point, and the shift is from relaxed to readiness that is still surprisingly steady.