He was too close, and he wasn't backing up. Not having the space she wanted, the space she needed to feel comfortable was making it hard for her to think straight. She wanted to send him flying. She could. She had proof she could, but he carried himself too much like the doctors on staff back in that damned box. Very easily putting himself in charge.
And she couldn't make herself do it. That and the drop from here would seriously wound, if not kill, just about anyone.
"It's... natural," she said slowly. She should be dying it again. Even if she picked a color that wasn't brown. Stupid, stupid, stupid stupid stupid...
"I... I'm expected there any day now," a total lie. Well, not total, she would be talking with the headmistress soon, if Eva was to be believed, after all. Eva and her friend with the metal bones and claws. But this partial lie was uttered in her own self defense. Maybe he'd just let her walk on out now thinking she was expected somewhere.