[ in any other instance, she might be able to wrench herself out of his grasp. it's telling that she doesn't struggle, both in regard to what respect she does have for him and what energy she needs to conserve to avoid nearly collapsing again. ]

You don't know how sick you'll get. [ she raises her arm to emphasize where his fingers have curved around it to make her point. being in her proximity doesn't seem wise; touching her seems even less so. ] We don't know how sick any of these people will get, or how many resources we have to deal with it. Your safety is more important to me than mine, and so is theirs. I have to do something.

[ she hadn't been undermining her decision to defend the people here, as self-destructive as that thought might be. still, so many of them are human, bellamy included; she distinctly isn't. ]