"It wouldn't be a real fight, not between these two," Alessa said, shrugging. "You shouldn't forget that they're both children at heart, and would not really attack each other in that way. Things change when the circumstances are warped. Its typical human behavior: pit those two in a fight like this and its sparring, but the moment an enemy targets something they care about, the claws come out."

She turned to Evangeline. "But you aren't like that, are you?"