This is, at least, probably a natural disaster--not man or observer made, not a script running to shake them like a kid with a snow globe. But he's with her: anything that makes the indoors less safe than standing in an open field adds a little more nausea to the general feeling of anxiety.
"Hoo," he audibly sighs, "this sucks." Probably, when a teenage girl is huddling in a doorway with you during a natural disaster, and you've got about ten years on her, there's an air of confidence or competence you want to project. Kira doesn't have enough of the latter, and the former was built on the literal ability to know how a situation would shake out. "Let me guess, he went to go check on my dog."
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"Hoo," he audibly sighs, "this sucks." Probably, when a teenage girl is huddling in a doorway with you during a natural disaster, and you've got about ten years on her, there's an air of confidence or competence you want to project. Kira doesn't have enough of the latter, and the former was built on the literal ability to know how a situation would shake out. "Let me guess, he went to go check on my dog."