[ There has been an awakening, whispers a voice in her mind as Ben's hand closes around her wrist. It feels different than the last. Not a memory, not exactly. It is a dark, hoarse voice, whispering death into the back of her mind. It feels cold. She feels cold. Tears prickle the corners of her eyes, and it's like a shadow looming over her.
His hand on her wrist feels like Plutt's as he held her back and she watched the ship leave. The ship with her parents. Her parents. She yanked her wrist back. ]
No! [ She staggers away from him. ] I can't.
[ Don't leave don't leave don't leave they're going to come back.
Separating herself from him gives the desperate bandits Plutt has employed a chance to grab her, prepared to haul her back, though some of them still advance after Ben to try and circle him in too. She uses her staff to knock them away, panicked and overwhelmed.
Idiot. She attacked Plutt. She couldn't just do that and then stick around Niima Outpost. She hasn't left herself with a wealth of options. But that thing Ben keeps doing to her, whatever it is, it—
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His hand on her wrist feels like Plutt's as he held her back and she watched the ship leave. The ship with her parents. Her parents. She yanked her wrist back. ]
No! [ She staggers away from him. ] I can't.
[ Don't leave don't leave don't leave they're going to come back.
Separating herself from him gives the desperate bandits Plutt has employed a chance to grab her, prepared to haul her back, though some of them still advance after Ben to try and circle him in too. She uses her staff to knock them away, panicked and overwhelmed.
Idiot. She attacked Plutt. She couldn't just do that and then stick around Niima Outpost. She hasn't left herself with a wealth of options. But that thing Ben keeps doing to her, whatever it is, it—
She doesn't want that, either. She's afraid. ]