And searching for a new hiding spot, here's a someone making enough noise (accidentally) to barely miss not getting hit on the face with a pointy weapon. Probably most of what keeps her from getting hit harder is her reflexes from years of athletics. Ow, but she'll live. When she speaks, it's not too loudly: βSorry. Just a boring, regular human here.β Lucky for both of them. And if she'd had a weapon on her, and could use it, she would have had the same reaction he did, so really - smart on his part.
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