[She's more surprised than anything else - surprised, but very quickly coming to understand what's going on here. She would have had to have been blind to miss the way the tensions have been rising in the cities in the last couple of months.
This is what it looks like when they boil over. Haru flinches as he pushes the poker into her shoulder. That thing is a lot sharper than it looks.
...if he has to hit someone, better that he hit her than someone more fragile, isn't it?]
It's— it's all right. This is... just a play. I can take it.
[Probably.
Maybe if she doesn't fit their idea of what should be happening here, they'll calm down. Maybe. Either way, she can hardly walk away from this and let someone else get dragged up the second her back is turned.]
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This is what it looks like when they boil over. Haru flinches as he pushes the poker into her shoulder. That thing is a lot sharper than it looks.
...if he has to hit someone, better that he hit her than someone more fragile, isn't it?]
It's— it's all right. This is... just a play. I can take it.
[Probably.
Maybe if she doesn't fit their idea of what should be happening here, they'll calm down. Maybe. Either way, she can hardly walk away from this and let someone else get dragged up the second her back is turned.]