[Her voice is soft and she closes her eyes. She can still visualize it well, even now. The Pale Pony standing and staring at everybody, her eyes full of malevolence. The pony the died nearby. The strange dragon-thing attacking it. Something about it seemed... odd. If she was really there to goad people to attacking, she would have done more to antagonize everybody. So as much as Chie doesn't want to disagree with Donna...]
But I think the Pale Pony was too confident in herself to really see us as a threat.
[Her eyes open and look at Donna's. They changed. These are not the eyes of the timid and unsure girl. They're ones that have the clarity of a fighter.]
And I saw the way she stopped to look--really look--at the ones she was the most interested in. It seems to me that what she was really trying to do was scare us, and to remind us right then that she is always watching us, even when we don't think she is. Maybe she wants us to be scared, to feel alone and helpless. To trick us... no... SOME of us to do something that it wants us to do.
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[Her voice is soft and she closes her eyes. She can still visualize it well, even now. The Pale Pony standing and staring at everybody, her eyes full of malevolence. The pony the died nearby. The strange dragon-thing attacking it. Something about it seemed... odd. If she was really there to goad people to attacking, she would have done more to antagonize everybody. So as much as Chie doesn't want to disagree with Donna...]
But I think the Pale Pony was too confident in herself to really see us as a threat.
[Her eyes open and look at Donna's. They changed. These are not the eyes of the timid and unsure girl. They're ones that have the clarity of a fighter.]
And I saw the way she stopped to look--really look--at the ones she was the most interested in. It seems to me that what she was really trying to do was scare us, and to remind us right then that she is always watching us, even when we don't think she is. Maybe she wants us to be scared, to feel alone and helpless. To trick us... no... SOME of us to do something that it wants us to do.