[This is normally where he'd tell her not to bother because hurting herself isn't helping anything, but -- as long as she's focused on that and not on him he's buying himself a precious few seconds. Because there has to be a way out. There has to.]
['Not proper' is the least of it. Even if he has no choice, he can't just... those others were different.]
[His pulse is in his throat as he tears his gaze away from her back to look carefully at the barrier -- it won't do a bit of good, but looking at her...]
My magic has been ineffective so far, but. [He might try it. This is Saber and he can't -- not like this.]