[ where they're going. there's something like fear again because she doesn't know where that is and he must know that she's different. while she's spent her whole life believing that people were Better, that same life has beaten into her that so often they're not.
she leans back when he moves in to touch her with the swab, eyeing him and his metal arm warily. ] You can't touch my skin with yours.
[ but then she stills, trusting him even as she readies to pull away if the worst happens. no amount of pain would keep her in place while she absorbed a person who so far had only tried to help her. ]
I've been through a lot worse than this. I'll be fine until we get there. [ because really, compared to back at the lab, this is nothing at all. they'd done so much worse to her, again and again... ]
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she leans back when he moves in to touch her with the swab, eyeing him and his metal arm warily. ] You can't touch my skin with yours.
[ but then she stills, trusting him even as she readies to pull away if the worst happens. no amount of pain would keep her in place while she absorbed a person who so far had only tried to help her. ]
I've been through a lot worse than this. I'll be fine until we get there. [ because really, compared to back at the lab, this is nothing at all. they'd done so much worse to her, again and again... ]