-Blinks, then picks up the pace and goes to turn the damn thing off-
You never can be sure about stuff like that, and everyone deals with it differently. I don't know if it helps you, but I've always chosen to just move forward no matter what happens. No matter how scary or how daunting something might look, no matter how much you feel like you can't protect people, the only thing you can do is make sure you do your best.
-nods- Al right.
Red Executor fire on my mark.
Three- two- one.
-points in the same direction as where Ruby was pointing- Fire!
-BOOM-
-BOOM-
-BOOM-
-sound the literal naval artillery-
-after several small explosions from the shells, the hut is no more, and is in fact a small crater in its' place-
1.5 imperial gallons of tea were consumed during the writing of this post...No! Not so, th-the girl, she said, stated the man's malicious intentions, carnal cunnings...
...Ah! But myself, God of this world, miraculously made an intervention, a-and now she is safe, secure, spotless from the tainted touch of the foul philanderer, fiendish foe...
(Wheezes contentedly, lying back and not seeming to care so much that his nice tailored suit is now all covered in dirt.)
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019...I didn't know you were still doing that.
-Heads in after and goes to get it-
-Starts to say something, then pauses-
I don't know, which isn't to say that she doesn't. It's just that, even though Julie and I are very close, I don't know what goes through her head. She sees something, I know that much, but I'd only be able to guess.
And with something like this, you don't want to hear secondhand guesses. You'd need to hear it from her, not from me. Only she knows for sure.

...Wow. Well, I've got your back if this happens again.
-Kyoster is hanging around-