She just kinda looks at Spoon. There's a battle, here.
She's still stunned. Stunned, and horrified, and increasingly furious, and guilty for feeling all those other things, since she only just said the other day she'd never ask him to stop taking risks but THERE'S HALF OF HIS FACE AND TORSO MISSING, for all that the gaps are covered in skin, and she's still not entirely convinced he's not actually dead, come to tell her so.
Weirder things have happened. Ace has long ago realized it's not safe around here to ever rule anything out.
Eventually she reaches out, tentatively, and takes his still-whole hand. She hasn't forgiven him, not yet. That requires being able to realize what was done in the first place.
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She's still stunned. Stunned, and horrified, and increasingly furious, and guilty for feeling all those other things, since she only just said the other day she'd never ask him to stop taking risks but THERE'S HALF OF HIS FACE AND TORSO MISSING, for all that the gaps are covered in skin, and she's still not entirely convinced he's not actually dead, come to tell her so.
Weirder things have happened. Ace has long ago realized it's not safe around here to ever rule anything out.
Eventually she reaches out, tentatively, and takes his still-whole hand. She hasn't forgiven him, not yet. That requires being able to realize what was done in the first place.