[Well, yeah, the guy's got a point. This isn't okay. It's bizarre and frightening. But Triela has a job to do — namely, survival, until she can find Hilshire, and she can't let this guy impede her there.]
I suggest running away. We're gonna get eaten alive if we stay here, mister.
[Now she frowns, maybe a little wise for her age, and she retracts her hand, but she bends down to his level.]
Listen. Do you have a death wish?
[She's not mocking him. She asks it very solemnly.]
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I suggest running away. We're gonna get eaten alive if we stay here, mister.
[Now she frowns, maybe a little wise for her age, and she retracts her hand, but she bends down to his level.]
Listen. Do you have a death wish?
[She's not mocking him. She asks it very solemnly.]