Her breathing was heavy, with her eyes slowly sliding into tunnel vision when Allen put a hand on her shoulder causing her to raise her head.
He looked at her with his eyes facing hers. He could see she was blaming herself, it was quite obvious. Or at least he thought so.
He didn't really get it though. The threat was gone. The mission was still on. Blame was a waste of time.
If there had been someone to tell him, or if a system had a quirky personality like in some other novels he had read, it would have told him that he was doing just the same a few seconds ago.
But there was nothing of sorts to tell him that, hence his thoughts remained unchanged.
"It's fine," he said with his voice mostly flat. "You reacted. That's all that matters. I didn't see or hear them at all."
