[There are plenty of reasons to be afraid! He's a Noah. He can stick his hand into her chest and rip her heart out. He likes to hurt her friends. He's smiling at her!
Um. Well. Smiling isn't a bad thing...except when he's smiling and she doesn't know why.
But he's not going away and Miranda can feel Lee getting agitated by her side from her behavior. Is she scaring him? Doesn't that mean she's failing at being his caretaker? Maybe Acumen will make her give him back if--
No, no. Miranda takes a soft, but deep, breath, because her mind is running away from her. She has to keep herself together. So she slowly, with a flinch in between, extends her had to take Tyki's.]