——

and it happens when she is face to face with him, the harbinger of terror himself.

an expecting gaze he places over her, the fear of others being a habit of his.

the fact that she'll step aside, quite presumable by the onlookers, but as if a bombshell to them,

she doesn't.

eye to eye they stand, fronting each other.

and the murmers rise, and though they are true about her not knowing who she's fronting, she doesn't understand the need to step back.

He saw her coming, he should've stepped aside himself,

simple as that.