No, it wasn't good, and she should have run perhaps. But Peridot hesitated.

What was she doing really? Running here and there trying to avoid Rose Quartz, trying to swipe electronics, eek out a pathetic little existence while everyone around her tried to kill her and while she tried to fight them off with a little bitty healing ray?

Whereas here...Yes, there might a trade-off involved, but what did she care for the war she'd been dumped into? What was at stake but the life of her most hated enemy? What did she need right now more than a weapon?

"If they truly are effective...than show me."