[When Cross changes her mind she relaxes just a fraction. Later, she may blame that fraction for not getting to Tyki in time. The shots ring in her ears even as she reaches out, but it's too little too late. The firing stops at three and her arm falls back at her side.
She's seen people killed before — more times than she can count. She's done the killing. She's failed to stop the killing. She's seen enemies, strangers, and friends mowed down. But as tough as she got it never stopped affecting her. She never stopped feeling the deaths, and now her eyes — widened by what just happened, but still dry — shift very slowly downward to look at Tyki. She doesn't want to see, but she can't stop herself from looking. He couldn't still be alive after that, but...maybe?]