[Lance is definitely regretting his decision not to take the offer as soon as he sees Michael slump over; he's known the Visitor was a possibility, of course, but just somehow thought any danger here was going to be from Michael himself. Despite having been in Hadriel nearly a year, he's still not totally used to this sort of thing.
And, despite everything he's experienced in that year--and before that at home--the way the Visitor emerges from that shadow is one of the most unsettling and horrifying things he's ever seen. So he's kind of frozen in place while it happens, too shocked to react until it's halfway out of the shadow, and then suddenly where there was nothing going through his mind there's everything. What is he going to do?
He remembers what Michael told him before, about the Visitor being kind of like a dog as far as communication goes, and so very briefly entertains the idea of trying to calm it down by not looking like a threat. But that's too much of a risk to take on something that probably won't work, and instead he draws his gun; there aren't many bullets left, but he just needs to slow the thing down long enough to figure out a way to get away from it. Easier said than done, but so is pretty much everything.
Lance doesn't wait for the Visitor to finish appearing before taking aim and firing twice; fortunately its head is a pretty big target, and he really hopes this thing isn't immune to bullets.]
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And, despite everything he's experienced in that year--and before that at home--the way the Visitor emerges from that shadow is one of the most unsettling and horrifying things he's ever seen. So he's kind of frozen in place while it happens, too shocked to react until it's halfway out of the shadow, and then suddenly where there was nothing going through his mind there's everything. What is he going to do?
He remembers what Michael told him before, about the Visitor being kind of like a dog as far as communication goes, and so very briefly entertains the idea of trying to calm it down by not looking like a threat. But that's too much of a risk to take on something that probably won't work, and instead he draws his gun; there aren't many bullets left, but he just needs to slow the thing down long enough to figure out a way to get away from it. Easier said than done, but so is pretty much everything.
Lance doesn't wait for the Visitor to finish appearing before taking aim and firing twice; fortunately its head is a pretty big target, and he really hopes this thing isn't immune to bullets.]