"Not so rules and regs, are you?" She doesn't approve, but neither is she going to call him out; she's operated outside the law plenty, and can respect the impulse, "No right answers, only trade-offs?"

See the right answer, in her book, was the one that got the best results for the problem at hand. Which meant that there was no best answer that lasted longer than engagement with the enemy. Or something like that.

"Hit me. I want to hear the forbidden knowledge," Shepard sips from her drink, smirking, "I'm tough, I can take it."