[ oh shit ] [ Well, that's some serious emotional whiplash, but he goes very still when she breaks the glass, and he doesn't try to block it even when he thinks, briefly, that she might be about to attack him.
(Kind of a funny instinct, in the moment. He might have trouble explaining why he would have let her hit him.) (It's definitely not that he didn't think it would hurt.) (In the moment, it had just seemed more important not to frighten her any further than it was not to get hurt.) ]
Whoa— Hey...
[ Startled, but quickly softening, and then... and then just disbelieving. —After a slightly too-long moment, he brings up a very awkward hand to pat her lightly on the back? ]
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(Kind of a funny instinct, in the moment. He might have trouble explaining why he would have let her hit him.) (It's definitely not that he didn't think it would hurt.)
(In the moment, it had just seemed more important not to frighten her any further than it was not to get hurt.) ]
Whoa— Hey...
[ Startled, but quickly softening, and then... and then just disbelieving. —After a slightly too-long moment, he brings up a very awkward hand to pat her lightly on the back? ]