The thought fills her head as she tightens her grip on the sword. The kind-faced boy who's not surprised to meet a talking monkey with a sword in a decimated city in the land of the dead, trying to talk her out of keeping her guard up by appealing to her better nature, has made the error of believing that her better nature is that easy to appeal to.
Unfortunately, the man who brought out her better nature has died in front of her all over again, and the child who sustained it is either dead, or still - forever - in mortal danger, and she doesn't trust a boy who's calm in the land of the dead, facing a talking monkey with a sword.]
Or the beings that ruined this city might meet me first.
[The look she gives him is pure suspicion.]
Maybe one already has. Maybe one's thinking he's going to get my guard down.
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The thought fills her head as she tightens her grip on the sword. The kind-faced boy who's not surprised to meet a talking monkey with a sword in a decimated city in the land of the dead, trying to talk her out of keeping her guard up by appealing to her better nature, has made the error of believing that her better nature is that easy to appeal to.
Unfortunately, the man who brought out her better nature has died in front of her all over again, and the child who sustained it is either dead, or still - forever - in mortal danger, and she doesn't trust a boy who's calm in the land of the dead, facing a talking monkey with a sword.]
Or the beings that ruined this city might meet me first.
[The look she gives him is pure suspicion.]
Maybe one already has. Maybe one's thinking he's going to get my guard down.