[After]
[ Blunt, yes. Painful, even -- and that can be seen in the way she returns his look. Gods are detached and, if truly left to their own devices, care not in the matters of life and death -- those are things they can toy with after all. Smite one here, have someone drink a cup of ambrosia there; paradise in death, or hell on earth...
Sasha may know the pain of loss, but her own mortality was not something she had given the utmost importance. She is ready to sacrifice everything, including her own life, to obtain victory in battle -- she will simply return to Olympus after all and come back, another Athena, another life, another name, and so the cycle goes on.
Humans -- mortals -- do not have such luxury. ]
Taking someone's life, taking my life -- knowing that in doing so you deprive someone of their loves and of their future -- what would that bring you?
[ Not that she is ignoring his lecture; but there are things she needs to know. ]