[Again, the idiosyncratic reaction. Like she is confirming his expectations, but they're the wrong expectations. China doesn't particularly care if this stranger hates her or fears her or whatever else -- she has done what she has done, after all, and denies nothing of who and what she is -- but she's certainly not going to take someone else's deeds on her, too.]
[The light is interesting. Not immediately identifiable as a discipline she knows of, but not impossible for a sorcerer, either. China puts that aside as she realizes he's about to have his gun in hand again, and there's really only one possible following action. She snaps her forearms together, lining up the sigils there with magic-borne precision, and the yellow dome of her force field catches the shotgun blast.]
[It actually pushes her back.]
[The fact that she means to incapacitate, not murder, is what drives her next motion, the almost habitual tap of the tattoos on her upper arms before she flings her hands wide, tossing a wave of blue energy with the motion. She strides after it and him, purposeful, hands curling into loose fists.]
[She primes the sigils on her palms with the gesture as a precautionary measure, the faintest of radiance leaking out. Pain is also incapacitating.]
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[The light is interesting. Not immediately identifiable as a discipline she knows of, but not impossible for a sorcerer, either. China puts that aside as she realizes he's about to have his gun in hand again, and there's really only one possible following action. She snaps her forearms together, lining up the sigils there with magic-borne precision, and the yellow dome of her force field catches the shotgun blast.]
[It actually pushes her back.]
[The fact that she means to incapacitate, not murder, is what drives her next motion, the almost habitual tap of the tattoos on her upper arms before she flings her hands wide, tossing a wave of blue energy with the motion. She strides after it and him, purposeful, hands curling into loose fists.]
[She primes the sigils on her palms with the gesture as a precautionary measure, the faintest of radiance leaking out. Pain is also incapacitating.]