"It does. I don't think that you think I'm incapable - I was honest with you. The best I can do in a fight is to run away."
Everything she's ever faced, it's been stronger, unable to be destroyed. Unable to really be hurt for a long period of time. That sort of powerlessness - the only thing she can do is outthink them, and that doesn't make one a fighter, it just means you survive.
"I know my own limits. So it's more that...I'm touched, Erin. But I'm also going to worry about you, even as I know you can take care of yourself. If I'm under your aegis, you're under my concern, okay?"
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Date: 2022-12-03 04:06 am (UTC)Everything she's ever faced, it's been stronger, unable to be destroyed. Unable to really be hurt for a long period of time. That sort of powerlessness - the only thing she can do is outthink them, and that doesn't make one a fighter, it just means you survive.
"I know my own limits. So it's more that...I'm touched, Erin. But I'm also going to worry about you, even as I know you can take care of yourself. If I'm under your aegis, you're under my concern, okay?"