You can relax. I couldn't hurt you if I wanted to.
*A hand slides behind her neck, seemingly to adjust her hair, but comes back holding something small and pistol-ish. It's leveled at Miller in less time than it takes to tell, and she squeezes off three shots of crackling energy, dead-center...*
*...which, of course, dissipate harmlessly against him, leaving no more sign of their passing than a slight smell of ozone. And as quick as the weapon is drawn, it's spun in the palm of a hand lifted away from him and into a gesture of almost-surrender, fingers open, thumb curled around the stock of the weapon.*
Nothing can, unless you consciously allow it--or attack first. You're quite safe from me.
*She sits back, slowly, taking care to present body language that seems at ease, rather than preparing a follow-up strike. Her lips twitch upward in a hint of a smile as she carries the conversation onward, as though she hadn't just done something shocking.*
I'm glad to hear it. I find ethics especially precious among the professionally violent. And as charity cases go, well... I'm willing to go farther for a friend than for a job.
*Unspoken is that he's heard already how far she'll go for a job.*
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*A hand slides behind her neck, seemingly to adjust her hair, but comes back holding something small and pistol-ish. It's leveled at Miller in less time than it takes to tell, and she squeezes off three shots of crackling energy, dead-center...*
*...which, of course, dissipate harmlessly against him, leaving no more sign of their passing than a slight smell of ozone. And as quick as the weapon is drawn, it's spun in the palm of a hand lifted away from him and into a gesture of almost-surrender, fingers open, thumb curled around the stock of the weapon.*
Nothing can, unless you consciously allow it--or attack first. You're quite safe from me.
*She sits back, slowly, taking care to present body language that seems at ease, rather than preparing a follow-up strike. Her lips twitch upward in a hint of a smile as she carries the conversation onward, as though she hadn't just done something shocking.*
I'm glad to hear it. I find ethics especially precious among the professionally violent. And as charity cases go, well... I'm willing to go farther for a friend than for a job.
*Unspoken is that he's heard already how far she'll go for a job.*