[There's an odd note in her tone, the way she says that — like warped steel, like an uncanny valley of reassurance. Prompto is perhaps the only person in the entirety of the town with the ability to understand why that particular sentence is strung together the way it is, rather than hearing it as its gentler cousin, I know you won't hurt me.
Inwardly, she takes a quick self-assessment of all the factors — the distance between them, her stores of magic, her reflexes. She'd have to be fast, and get off two spells in the time she'd usually devote to just one. She's got enough juice for the spells she'd need to put him down, she thinks, if it came to it.
She'd just also need the other one, too. The one that lets her smile through all the most horrible things she's ever done.]
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[There's an odd note in her tone, the way she says that — like warped steel, like an uncanny valley of reassurance. Prompto is perhaps the only person in the entirety of the town with the ability to understand why that particular sentence is strung together the way it is, rather than hearing it as its gentler cousin, I know you won't hurt me.
Inwardly, she takes a quick self-assessment of all the factors — the distance between them, her stores of magic, her reflexes. She'd have to be fast, and get off two spells in the time she'd usually devote to just one. She's got enough juice for the spells she'd need to put him down, she thinks, if it came to it.
She'd just also need the other one, too. The one that lets her smile through all the most horrible things she's ever done.]
You of all people should know I wouldn't.