[And she's very appreciative of it No matter her distrust of the other boy, if Ven didn't think he couldn't handle it, he'd say something. Or so she hopes.]

It may work, but it's probably just going to get him angrier than he already is. We'll have to be ready for anything.

[Discretion is the better part of valor, after all. No counting the chicobos before they hatch.

And no Ven throwing himself in the way of the proverbial arrow, either. She lived for months with a target on her back, she can do it again.]