No, he really didn't have to justify anything to her. If he wasn't asking her to justify anything, she wasn't going to ask him. After all, they both had their reasons... His was to free a country, her's was to save some animals.
The boy? Who was the boy? Her eyes went wide at his suggestion and she snorted with laughter. Desperate laughter. That couldn't possibly be right. Breeding material? No. No way. That was wrong on so many levels. It was poaching humans sort of and she did not want to think about the horrible, horrible irony.
"Well... if that turns out to be true, I'm claiming you," she said without any reservation. "Leastways we now know each other's horrible secrets, yeah? That part's over."