[ Even though he knows Peter is capable of it now, it still startles Ben a little when he just sort of jumps up and sticks to the wall, scuttling along it very much like a spider would, which makes sense of course. He sees how afraid Peter is. He also sees that Peter is not looking around for an attacker, or looking like he is aiming to dodge anything. Ben quickly revises his idea of this crisis in his head. Not an attack from another vantage, then. Something else.
Something had has Peter pale and wide-eyed and breathing like he's never been more scared. At once, Ben feels a rush of fear, himself, and of protectiveness, too. But how could he fight whatever had hurt those people? It wasn't something physical, a person he could rip in half... ]
Yeah, I'm real, it's me, Ben, were they not?!
[ He gives a small jerk of his head to where the people had turned to ash - at least reassuring Peter that he had seen them, too. Not a hallucination of any kind or flashback. Ben narrows his eyes when he notices there is no trace of ash on the ground. Not even a speck. Surely there would be some, even just a little, if those people really had crumbled. People are bigger than people tend to think. There was a lot of material to leave something behind, when they were undone, whatever the method.
Then, because he doesn't understand the situation and it seems worth it to reassure just in case, he says: ]
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Something had has Peter pale and wide-eyed and breathing like he's never been more scared. At once, Ben feels a rush of fear, himself, and of protectiveness, too. But how could he fight whatever had hurt those people? It wasn't something physical, a person he could rip in half... ]
Yeah, I'm real, it's me, Ben, were they not?!
[ He gives a small jerk of his head to where the people had turned to ash - at least reassuring Peter that he had seen them, too. Not a hallucination of any kind or flashback. Ben narrows his eyes when he notices there is no trace of ash on the ground. Not even a speck. Surely there would be some, even just a little, if those people really had crumbled. People are bigger than people tend to think. There was a lot of material to leave something behind, when they were undone, whatever the method.
Then, because he doesn't understand the situation and it seems worth it to reassure just in case, he says: ]
I'm not gonna hurt you.