[ the touch to her back is electric, but grounding, helping reel her back in from the rush of adrenaline that'd come with facing down a stranger almost twice her size in bulk. it's both incredibly bold and incredibly foolish of her, and a more clear-headed marta would have certainly known better (or, at the very least, thought twice about it) but he once again puts himself between her and any potential dangers and so, for that half-second at least, she is calmed.
when the fight breaks out, it's more expected than a shock. believing that man to simply let himself be told off would have been too much credit to his character, and so the startled shout she lets out is more over the sickening sound of kovacs' punch landing square where he wants it, a stream of green blood flying through the air in its wake. the man stumbles, stunned —
in that split-second marta has a miraculous moment of common sense and she takes her own stumbling steps back, out of the line of fire
— then the man's eyes go red (quite literally) and soon he's charging back for kovacs, throwing himself around the envoy's middle in an attempt to knock him down. ]
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when the fight breaks out, it's more expected than a shock. believing that man to simply let himself be told off would have been too much credit to his character, and so the startled shout she lets out is more over the sickening sound of kovacs' punch landing square where he wants it, a stream of green blood flying through the air in its wake. the man stumbles, stunned —
in that split-second marta has a miraculous moment of common sense and she takes her own stumbling steps back, out of the line of fire
— then the man's eyes go red (quite literally) and soon he's charging back for kovacs, throwing himself around the envoy's middle in an attempt to knock him down. ]