The Babs here is interesting. Her explicit condoning of Kate is total crap - she's the least hardline of the sanctioned Bats about killing, which is why her and Hel work, but this is still way over her line and there's been nothing in her life recently that would begin to prompt that kind of drastic attitude shift. But her coolness, her lie to Jim to protect Kate, and Kate's general wariness of her, does come a hell of a lot closer to capturing what their dynamic should actually be like than any of the BIRDS issues Kate was inexplicably in.