[It comes out soft, barely a murmur. Maketh clasps her hands behind her back. Almost, but not quite standing at attention. This way her hands won't shake. She watches Chris for a long moment, trying to read him. Properly this time. Of course he'd encountered the wendigos before this - before Hadriel - but Maketh hadn't really stopped to consider what that would have been alike. Here, the strangeness was almost common place. That hadn't made the events any less painful or nightmare inducing, but it was--
Expected. In a way.
It wouldn't have been, for Chris and his friends. They probably didn't see it coming. And if they'd been too drunk to react--
Well. Of course he'd feel this way.
And yet, he'd come out to see her. To check on her, Maketh knows. Even though she's been rude to him and probably damaged him somehow - possibly in a way that can't be undone, she really shouldn't talk to civilians at all.]
I'm sorry that happened to you. It - shouldn't have.
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[It comes out soft, barely a murmur. Maketh clasps her hands behind her back. Almost, but not quite standing at attention. This way her hands won't shake. She watches Chris for a long moment, trying to read him. Properly this time. Of course he'd encountered the wendigos before this - before Hadriel - but Maketh hadn't really stopped to consider what that would have been alike. Here, the strangeness was almost common place. That hadn't made the events any less painful or nightmare inducing, but it was--
Expected. In a way.
It wouldn't have been, for Chris and his friends. They probably didn't see it coming. And if they'd been too drunk to react--
Well. Of course he'd feel this way.
And yet, he'd come out to see her. To check on her, Maketh knows. Even though she's been rude to him and probably damaged him somehow - possibly in a way that can't be undone, she really shouldn't talk to civilians at all.]
I'm sorry that happened to you. It - shouldn't have.