Breaking the Ice

[Gar]

Todd pushed open the locker door and stared at Ashla in shock. "T-that was the Force? I'd just assumed someone had injected me with a sedative..." She looked away, visibly distressed by this new information. After a moment of thought she shook her head and sighed, "If you had not have done that, I would certainly be dead... I understand why you did it, and I trust your word to not do it again..." She leans toward Ashla, a pained expression on her face as she says quietly, "Ashla, you're the first friend I've had in a long time...you've stood up for me... I'm sorry if anything I said has upset you...I don't like feeling powerless or trapped, and that is how this new experience has made me feel..." It was now Todd's turn to feel guilty. She leaned up next to the inside wall of the locker and stared at the ground.