Concern washes over him as he listens to her words. He felt the bitterness of not being able to help – if he had been there seconds before, he could’ve helped, even being able to protect her.
“Alright– Ah, it’s okay, it’s okay!!” His words were probably attempting to calm himself down more than her; Rin was panicking. “Tell me where it hurts! You should– ah– rest?” Maybe he could do something to help?
๑ - The sudden reassuring words almost startle Kirie as she hears a more comforting response than she was ever expecting to what she had muttered out of instinct. Curling up in a tighter ball than he had found her in, she took care to press her hand against the wound at her side.
After the burns the lighthouse incident had given her, she hadn’t thought that a bullet could have hurt all that much more. Maybe it was because she felt especially alone and scared, but it hurt more than she could ever remember anything else hurting her before.
What was the point of having run away from her old home town if all that was to meet her in civilization again were criminals; trying to kill her for always picking the wrong abandoned buildings to take shelter in?
It took her a bit of time to manage to get her thoughts together again and answer what had been asked as best as she could “My...side.”