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Ward had figured out that he'd somehow offended the girl. He'd known that she was annoyed that this Clara woman had no-showed on her, but the level of anger she'd begun to display suggested he might have walked in on something far worse. This was confirmed when he suddenly exploded. Instinctively he'd tried to protect himself as he felt it coming, but there was only so much he could do in the face of such an extreme sucker punch, so to speak.

Hit the floor face-first and coughed. He was officially out of patience, quite done with being the victim of this girl's misplaced anger. Before he could decide exactly how he wanted to respond, as soon as he got back to his feet he was bound by some sort of inky tentacles. Someone had seen fit to intervene, but for whatever reason he seemed to be the one targeted more so. Either that or they'd decided Diana looked distinctly hard to bind at the moment.

"While I appreciate the sentiment, I request that you release me. This girl here seems to have decided to vent her frustrations on me. I'm perfectly willing to just walk away if you'd allow me... Or since we're all stuck here, perhaps you'd like to actually talk about your issues instead of shooting people in the back over it?!" He glared at Diana as he spoke. Mildly sardonic, perhaps, but he'd have liked to know why she saw fit to go nuclear on him, not that it would make him forgive her...