[Not so much as a twitch at the reminder. She's been through worse.]
[She shakes her head a little, the ribbons on her mask trailing through the air like banners in the wind.] Someone has to do the scut work. You knock out the supports and the whole thing comes down, after all.
[The mask coming off does nothing to calm Asta's jangling nerves. Indeed, it has the opposite effect; if her feelings before were a distant alarm, this is a tornado siren shrieking directly in her ears. But she doesn't flinch. She takes a slow breath through her nose before exhaling quietly.]
Knowledge. I wanna understand the world. If you know what you're dealing with, it stops being scary or dangerous. [A brief pause.] I'm, er, guessing that doesn't always apply, though.
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[She shakes her head a little, the ribbons on her mask trailing through the air like banners in the wind.] Someone has to do the scut work. You knock out the supports and the whole thing comes down, after all.
[The mask coming off does nothing to calm Asta's jangling nerves. Indeed, it has the opposite effect; if her feelings before were a distant alarm, this is a tornado siren shrieking directly in her ears. But she doesn't flinch. She takes a slow breath through her nose before exhaling quietly.]
Knowledge. I wanna understand the world. If you know what you're dealing with, it stops being scary or dangerous. [A brief pause.] I'm, er, guessing that doesn't always apply, though.