[Nick isn't always a good person. She's internalized a lifetime of being told she's worthless and terrible, and habitually does very little to dissuade anyone else of thinking she's anything but. She acts like an asshole a lot of the time simply because she can, and she can be vicious in retaliating when she's been hurt.
And she's offended and irritated by this encounter, that's for certain. If she truly were a terrible person, she might follow up the stunning scream with something a lot more lethal - the bolts of dark energy that emerged during her face-off with a wendigo. But this is a person, not a monster who's attacked her. Somewhere, underneath the boil of anger over being attacked for no reason, Nick realizes this distinction, and instead of taking advantage of the other woman's vulnerable state, she stands down for the moment.]
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And she's offended and irritated by this encounter, that's for certain. If she truly were a terrible person, she might follow up the stunning scream with something a lot more lethal - the bolts of dark energy that emerged during her face-off with a wendigo. But this is a person, not a monster who's attacked her. Somewhere, underneath the boil of anger over being attacked for no reason, Nick realizes this distinction, and instead of taking advantage of the other woman's vulnerable state, she stands down for the moment.]
I'm warning you - don't fuck with me again.