[Fingers clasping as they wend around one another, Thrawn responds without hesitation, as though they were simply discussing the weather:]

I asked.

[And from there his cheek tips upward to flash the raw edge of one of his injuries— an example, before Inuyasha might think to ask.] One of the benefits of attempting to capture them alive, rather than simply killing them in retribution, as the Empress herself had previously ordered.