[ His only family is his aunt? That seems notable, and Ben files it away for the future. Apparently she is someone he likes enough that she would appear amongst his friends, as someone it would hurt him to see die (no, Ben doesn't automatically assume that is true of family...). And Peter is confirming his suspicions - that this was a targeted attack, meant to elicit terror and grief, and that it was drawing on knowledge that ought only to be available in Peter's brain. It's an extremely worrying combination.
Almost as worrying as the fact that they'd been tangible, to Peter. Even without poison or acid, and even if they hadn't been contagious and made Peter crumble into ash, too... illusions should not be tangible. They just shouldn't. It is breaking some kind of rule.
Ben is thinking on his feet too, here. He looks back to where they'd come from, but they're far enough away that he can't see that cloudy junk Peter is talking about. Is it gone? Merely waiting to take another shape? ]
Okay - okay, why don't you go get those, and I'll wait here and stand guard to- make sure no one else goes near it.
[ It's natural to him, to divide tasks like this, to work as a team. Even after so many years, it is embedded in the way he thinks. ]
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Almost as worrying as the fact that they'd been tangible, to Peter. Even without poison or acid, and even if they hadn't been contagious and made Peter crumble into ash, too... illusions should not be tangible. They just shouldn't. It is breaking some kind of rule.
Ben is thinking on his feet too, here. He looks back to where they'd come from, but they're far enough away that he can't see that cloudy junk Peter is talking about. Is it gone? Merely waiting to take another shape? ]
Okay - okay, why don't you go get those, and I'll wait here and stand guard to- make sure no one else goes near it.
[ It's natural to him, to divide tasks like this, to work as a team. Even after so many years, it is embedded in the way he thinks. ]