Fortunately, Meril shed her armor into the ether just a moment before she hit him. Not lightly thanks to her strength and mass... but lightly enough. She was still a small girl, after all, and she wasn't trying to take him down. The hands that went around him clung more than they did squeeze, fingers splayed like she was trying to hold as much of him as possible all at once.
One moment of shivering, desperate tension later, she leaned her head back slightly, her eyes squinted from having jammed them, unthinkingly, straight into his beard.
"You are not safe from either side now," she said, the joke so much brittle ice over worry and relief and a soul that seemed to have been wrung out like a damp rag.
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Fortunately, Meril shed her armor into the ether just a moment before she hit him. Not lightly thanks to her strength and mass... but lightly enough. She was still a small girl, after all, and she wasn't trying to take him down. The hands that went around him clung more than they did squeeze, fingers splayed like she was trying to hold as much of him as possible all at once.
One moment of shivering, desperate tension later, she leaned her head back slightly, her eyes squinted from having jammed them, unthinkingly, straight into his beard.
"You are not safe from either side now," she said, the joke so much brittle ice over worry and relief and a soul that seemed to have been wrung out like a damp rag.