"Mindfulness exercise, my mistake," she says, mock-petulantly before she grins. She does listen to the more serious explanation, considering it in full, glancing over at him and catching the face he makes. "That makes sense, I think," she says. "Some days I leave Anne's and I'm more...not unsettled, really, but wary. Like I can't stop thinking about what this kind of self-defense is designed to be used for."
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