[All Akko can do is follow Kaede's movement in the dark with her eyes. Or at least try to. It just seems like a black, vaguely person-ish blob moving around other plant-shaped blobs before scampering up one and staying put. Her mouth starts to move as she tries to answer the question, but no sound comes out for a few seconds.]
I-I... [Hang on...? Did it speak to her? The scary thing in the dark used words she could understand and it wasn't threatening her. Atsuko swallowed hard and pushed herself to straighten up into something more confident than stiff. Her voice is a little thinner than she would like, but the paralysis seems to be letting up if she can speak.] I wasn't trying to throw it. That's my wand.
[There's a beat as she clenches and unclenches her fists, trying to will parts of herself to move.]
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I-I... [Hang on...? Did it speak to her? The scary thing in the dark used words she could understand and it wasn't threatening her. Atsuko swallowed hard and pushed herself to straighten up into something more confident than stiff. Her voice is a little thinner than she would like, but the paralysis seems to be letting up if she can speak.] I wasn't trying to throw it. That's my wand.
[There's a beat as she clenches and unclenches her fists, trying to will parts of herself to move.]
I'm a witch.