[ There isn't a second's hesitation to the answer. If Peter says they gotta go, they gotta go. Ben has no reason not to trust that he knows what he's talking about. From the extreme reaction, from the lack of shouting confused questions of his own, Ben is guessing that Peter might have at least some clue what all this is. He doesn't need that answer right away. He's willing to follow along and let himself be pulled.
He keeps an eye out, though. That feeling of intense protectiveness hasn't gone away even if he no longer thinks there is some kind of sniper with a disintegrator or whatever. Peter looks ... messed up. Ben walks briskly at his side, glancing over his shoulder at those figures falling, crumbling... somehow the bloodlessness of it is upsetting. Ben's seen a lot of gore and viscera in his day but this is just... unnatural. Bodies don't do that. That's simply not what they look like when they fall apart. ]
You got a plan?
[ He asks the words so gently, enough that they almost sound like 'Are you gonna be okay?' ]
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[ There isn't a second's hesitation to the answer. If Peter says they gotta go, they gotta go. Ben has no reason not to trust that he knows what he's talking about. From the extreme reaction, from the lack of shouting confused questions of his own, Ben is guessing that Peter might have at least some clue what all this is. He doesn't need that answer right away. He's willing to follow along and let himself be pulled.
He keeps an eye out, though. That feeling of intense protectiveness hasn't gone away even if he no longer thinks there is some kind of sniper with a disintegrator or whatever. Peter looks ... messed up. Ben walks briskly at his side, glancing over his shoulder at those figures falling, crumbling... somehow the bloodlessness of it is upsetting. Ben's seen a lot of gore and viscera in his day but this is just... unnatural. Bodies don't do that. That's simply not what they look like when they fall apart. ]
You got a plan?
[ He asks the words so gently, enough that they almost sound like 'Are you gonna be okay?' ]