Valkyrie barely was able to hid dissapointment. One of the most secure secrets of Liberty and by extension of it also of The Order: Valhalla, let this slip past. Capture or termination of the subject has been on their agenda for some time now, source of the head's up not disclosed to her by Michal Golanski yet. Were we first to know? Now Valkyrie satisfied her own curiosity as far she could extract information from Ellington herself. The speech of hypergate made her trully realize importance of that directive.
"In this case you will fully understand that termination of one specific being is fate preffered to extinction of whole species, should capture be proved impossible to achieve. You do not have to tour me about importance of hypergate to Sirius itself either, we are well aware and anticipated many scenarios... this one included. End will justify means here."
No matter the cost was mantra repeated over and over, for many years past; A tool for The Order to justify their morally questionable actions over course of history. She realized how this reflected on their image, never fully feeling right herself with quite a number of deeds. The Order, after all remained effective in the field specifically due to dead, cold calculations. Straining state of affairs to long standing operatives... balancing their own humanity or lack thereof. Was she finally counting among them as she proposed pulling the trigger as the first measure? As they have talked, Valkyrie hid her true thoughts behind face of proffesionalism.