She stiffened. A certain tightness had gripped her chest, as if Venom had asked a far less innocuous question than the one he had posed just now. It rankled Claire all the same.
"Nothing," she hissed back at him, half turning to look him in the eye and impress the point. Scattered edges of light from the torch found the ugly contours of her scowl, illuminating slivers of what was usually if not a happy face, then a fair one. "Shut up and keep moving."
If Venom's nattering and plodding footsteps brought some monster out for their blood, she was leaving him to deal with it alone. This had not been worth an ounce of the effort it had taken to get there - and it had barely cost her energy at all.
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"Nothing," she hissed back at him, half turning to look him in the eye and impress the point. Scattered edges of light from the torch found the ugly contours of her scowl, illuminating slivers of what was usually if not a happy face, then a fair one. "Shut up and keep moving."
If Venom's nattering and plodding footsteps brought some monster out for their blood, she was leaving him to deal with it alone. This had not been worth an ounce of the effort it had taken to get there - and it had barely cost her energy at all.
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