" Stop it. Just stop. If I wanted you dead, if I wanted any of you dead, you'd be dead! Ru guo wo xiang ni si, ni men si ding le!" I translated, in my flabby Chinese.
Which was so patently true under the circumstances-- since I was having to work extremely hard to not kill them all-- that it made a visible impression all round. Well, as much as it could while everyone was actively terrified that I was in fact about to kill them all. At least they had certainly stopped worrying about doing any killing of their own. Even Orion had got over being enraged and was just standing gawking at me-- in an infuriatingly starry-eyed way, in his case, demonstrating his continuing total lack of judgment of sense. "

― Naomi Novik , The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2)