Cecil had the immediate instinct to instigate violence on this woman after she failed to stand down from attacking Ethan, already looking like she was just waiting readily to go in once more if he so much as tried to move. This act of aggression was too much for Cecil to just wait around and see what might happen without acting himself with that act being rather aggressive but would be successful in her capture. Firing off his gauntlet to trap her he gasped when Ethan instead took the blow and getting caught instead. Staring at him, he saw no reason to release him and instead kept a tightened grasp on him, feeling somewhat betrayed that he’d want to let her get away. “’Friend’?” That word couldn’t possibly be applied to her, not after what she did.

With that moment of trust remaining in question his eyes turned to Amuné, staring at her questionably as if not understanding he was in the wrong. Looking pretty close to continuing his assault on the woman his eyes soon turned to Ethan before immediately releasing his grip, his gauntlet dropping to the ground as Cecil tried to cover his exposed inner workings with his clothing. He felt confused and disorientated, feeling like he was betrayed by himself. Moving back a moment, he looked down at his gauntlet before holding out his exposed arm again towards it. With a sudden flash of electricity a bolt connected with his gauntlet and pulled it quickly off the ground and back to his arm, connecting immediately.

Cecil didn’t understand. He thought he was doing good by trying to protect Ethan again but was instead essentially told off rather aggressively. He tried helping in the only way he understood and yet it was wrong. Feeling confused he moved back anxiously, looking around before turning away. Today had been one of his most stressful days and what was worse was he had come out of it knowing nothing more about their world other than he was always going to be wrong. He didn’t know what was right or what he was supposed to feel about this. He was completely alienated at this point and couldn’t understand why. Trying to help people seemed to only get him into trouble.