[Ellie just keeps dancing around it, wanting to tell him, but dreading it too. Lance has done everything to make her comfortable, to assure her that he will understand whatever it is. But there's a difference between telling him, and telling Nathan.
She's... appreciated being close to him. She doesn't want that to change. But either he finds out from her, or at some point, he's going to end up in his head, or get a flash of something she'll have to explain. At some point, he'll probably watch her fight, or kill. And he'll see how easily she does it. It feels inevitable.
It helps, that he calls her out on it. Pinning her down so gently that it doesn't feel like she's trapped.
Lance makes it her choice, gives her the power here, and it sucks. She works her jaw, looks out at the river.]
Because it wasn't all self defense.
Because I'm the kind of person that you'd be hunting down, back home.
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She's... appreciated being close to him. She doesn't want that to change. But either he finds out from her, or at some point, he's going to end up in his head, or get a flash of something she'll have to explain. At some point, he'll probably watch her fight, or kill. And he'll see how easily she does it. It feels inevitable.
It helps, that he calls her out on it. Pinning her down so gently that it doesn't feel like she's trapped.
Lance makes it her choice, gives her the power here, and it sucks. She works her jaw, looks out at the river.]
Because it wasn't all self defense.
Because I'm the kind of person that you'd be hunting down, back home.