[center][h3][color=6d00ff]Laura Tilney[/color][/h3][/center][color=silver][right]Hallway, Chroma Knight Base
December 19, 2016 - ~10:30[/right][/color]What.

What was Darius trying to say? Laura had been attempting to calm herself down, but after hearing what seemed to her to be wonky reasoning from Darius, she felt herself getting worked up again. 

Sure. Maybe Darius had been holding back, she knew that the Hammer was powerful from so many years of training. But he hadn't been able to control himself enough to hold back from cutting off Connor's arm. Holding back for [i]"most of the time"[/i] and having things under control [i]"for the most part"[/i] wasn't enough.

But that wasn't the main reason why she felt herself getting angry once more. Perhaps she would have been able to calm down and move on, forgive Darius for what he had done... if he would not have said those last two sentences.

[color=ffc000]"When we get out onto the battlefield its going to be worse, much worse than what just happened."[/color]

Did he think that she didn't know? She had been on the battlefield plenty of times as well. He knew that. She had had to heal comrades on the field, then watch them rush back into fighting without having a chance to rest. She had seen them [i]die[/i] and blamed herself afterwards for not being able to save their lives. It wasn't that Laura thought she was the only one who had to go through that. All of her teammates, save Connor, had been out to the battlefield. 

But if Darius suddenly thought that she couldn't handle it...

[color=ffc000]"If you didn't feel comfortable with it then you should have opened your mouth back in the dinning room."[/color]

Hah. Very funny. As if she had somehow been able to know that [i]this[/i] would happen. It was supposed to be a training session, where they could test their strength without getting hurt [i]like on the battlefield[/i].

When it seemed to her that Darius was finished speaking, she raised her head and turned to face him squarely. On her face still remained that expression of anger. She looked around to see why Connor was not saying anything, only to realize that he had left without her noticing. The anger dropped suddenly and she seemed to deflate, shock and hurt flickering across her face for a moment. Had she been acting so unpleasant that he had needed to escape?

Without anger giving her that energy boost, she seemed to get more tired. Had she let herself go too far and get too worked up? Perhaps. She looked down at the floor, shaking her head once. The rebuttal that she had been forming in her head dissolved.

[color=6d00ff]"I just... don't want to see you all get hurt."[/color] This was spoken in a quieter voice, before she regained a small spark of defiance, raising her head and meeting Darius's eyes.[color=6d00ff] "I can handle the battlefield. But when injury occurs in this base, the place where we are supposed to be comparatively safe... I can't stand it. It should not happen."[/color][hr][@FallenTrinity]