Oops.  Here she’d meant to say simply that since Kanae didn’t need a gun, she didn’t use one.  Instead, she’d managed to give the wrong impression altogether.  She had never meant to imply that Kanae needed looking after, or was a lightweight.  No, she could see that very clearly.  She let out a little startled noise when the axe was brandished in her direction.  Partly because the axe was being aimed in her general vicinity, and partly because of the look on the other runner’s face.  It looked like she was waiting for something to happen, like she was the wolf from the old stories and was going to eat her up.<br/><br/>“N-no, I won’t say that again…”  Rather, she would say something entirely different.  “…b-but, why do you keep an axe under your couch?  It seems like a rather strange location for it…”  Which, yes, it was.  Because<em>who</em>kept an axe under the couch?