[well, that's something else that she can work on piecing together. she moves her hand so it's not that close to where satoko has clearly already taken some damage tonight, and there's a flash of memory as she does. something that she probably shouldn't remember, but it's there like it just happened.]

Did she say she wasn't going to let anyone hurt me? [she swears she can hear it in kainé's voice, perfectly inflected.] She thought you were coming for me. Never cared for a second whether she could stop you or not. She wasn't just ready to kill.

[it's not a helpful thing to say. it's barely anything more than the musings of satoko's idiot of a friend. but it's like she never even considered it as a possibility before right now.]