[She would make an exception if it were self-defense.]
[Which is something she realizes belatedly as she looks up from tugging off her remaining shoe just in time to see the downward strike of an unfamiliar sword. Eyes round, she doesn't have the opportunity to warn him; that one instant seems eternal, and yet her mouth won't move quick enough, and instead she's hit with a sudden and forceful wave of pre-emptive guilt for what she expects to be another death caused purely by her own existence.]
[But it isn't, and the clash of metal on metal seems to ring in her ears. Surely, her mind is quick to supply, he can't keep them from--]
[He does, and if she were not so busy being relieved, she would be impressed. Halfway to her feet, she recognizes that there's a hand coming toward hers only just early enough to splay her fingers to receive it, because it doesn't much matter whether it's alright or not when they have to go, now. Urgently she stands the rest of the way, the straps of her shoes hooked haphazardly through the fingers of her other hand, and even if he doesn't start running first, there won't be much delay before she does it, herself.]
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[Which is something she realizes belatedly as she looks up from tugging off her remaining shoe just in time to see the downward strike of an unfamiliar sword. Eyes round, she doesn't have the opportunity to warn him; that one instant seems eternal, and yet her mouth won't move quick enough, and instead she's hit with a sudden and forceful wave of pre-emptive guilt for what she expects to be another death caused purely by her own existence.]
[But it isn't, and the clash of metal on metal seems to ring in her ears. Surely, her mind is quick to supply, he can't keep them from--]
[He does, and if she were not so busy being relieved, she would be impressed. Halfway to her feet, she recognizes that there's a hand coming toward hers only just early enough to splay her fingers to receive it, because it doesn't much matter whether it's alright or not when they have to go, now. Urgently she stands the rest of the way, the straps of her shoes hooked haphazardly through the fingers of her other hand, and even if he doesn't start running first, there won't be much delay before she does it, herself.]