Nine is too focused to waste any time on relief, but she is relieved that he hasn't been totally rendered dead weight by panic. That knee-shattering kick is perfect. Nothing like unfaltering brutality to convince the rest to back off; it's half the principle behind her design.

She takes Galen with them, uncaring if he ends up passing out or getting brain damage or whatever other side effects are from choking someone too long. She fully intends to kill him before they make their escape in any case; Nine just needs to take her collateral with them for the moment.

"We need supplies first," she points out, eating up the ground with her long strides down the corridor out the door. "The access pass to a lightflyer at least. Think he has one?" She holds him up again, from where his legs had been banging along the ground.