[The way she flinches when he grabs her arm, how her other arm goes up to defend herself, shows that her first instinct is that she's expecting to be hurt. Sylvain has never given her reason to believe he'll do that but old habits die hard. And she's already tried to make herself as small a target as possible before she can even stop herself.
It's the anger in his tone. Even though it's not directed her way. It's not about her but it's so easy for her to respond in fear to it. Sylvain's not going to hurt her but someone in the past has out of anger.
Namely her father. Something that isn't really common knowledge.]
...p-please let go. I'll stay. Just please let go. I'm...I'm s-scared.
[Because she trusts him enough to reveal that much at least. To say she's scared.]
cw: suggestions of a history of abuse/thoughts about the subject
It's the anger in his tone. Even though it's not directed her way. It's not about her but it's so easy for her to respond in fear to it. Sylvain's not going to hurt her but someone in the past has out of anger.
Namely her father. Something that isn't really common knowledge.]
...p-please let go. I'll stay. Just please let go. I'm...I'm s-scared.
[Because she trusts him enough to reveal that much at least. To say she's scared.]