[ Karen has brought up something disturbing to Gaunt. What if a Chaos Daemon, or... worse yet, Chaos Cultists show up? He can't go around summarily executing them all, not with Acumen in the picture. Even if he explained the threat he's not sure the rest of the defense force would listen or understand. ]
I mean.... I'm here to prevent that, and to keep anyone from getting injured. Duty, you know.
[ He pauses for a moment. ]
Besides, it would harm my conscience to let an intriguing a person as you appear to be endanger herself by engendering the wrath of our -apparently- all powerful jailor. It would be unconscionable as an officer of the Imperium.