[It's a simple admission. After all, she knows about chasing prey that's decided to run. If you want it dead, it doesn't get away. Not as easily as she did.]
But I'd killed an ally of his. I could either put distance between us... or trust him not to kill me.
[The implied question is obvious: Would you have taken that risk?
Right then, he hadn't wanted her dead. But he could, in her mind, have been waiting for her to let her guard down. To sleep. To trust him that he wouldn't hurt her.]
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[It's a simple admission. After all, she knows about chasing prey that's decided to run. If you want it dead, it doesn't get away. Not as easily as she did.]
But I'd killed an ally of his. I could either put distance between us... or trust him not to kill me.
[The implied question is obvious: Would you have taken that risk?
Right then, he hadn't wanted her dead. But he could, in her mind, have been waiting for her to let her guard down. To sleep. To trust him that he wouldn't hurt her.]