"It's the best I've got, but not leaving you here to get skewered," she says, smirking at him though she ducks as something else comes her way. Moving easily, though she's looking up at him with a sharp, challenging look.

"If it wasn't that I don't plan to leave you in the dust, I don't think keeping up is a problem," she taunts, keeping her sense of humor in the face of this. Dark as it might be sometimes. "But it's Ashley, and you better. Spent the best part of a day on the anvil making those," she admits, giving him a wink.

"How about this. Make a run for it, and I'll cover your back. Maybe with some time to focus you can find control. You know, in case it sticks." Hey! She has no idea how things in this place work, she's just glad for the power dampening because of family members she has in this place.