Numerous flying iron nails start appearing around her in a way very reminiscent to the way Nai does his blades, so probably "yes".

"Master Knives was freaking out and having bizarre thoughts and when he noticed me he locked me out. Because of you! What did you do!!!!" But she doesn't wait for an answer before she starts actually shooting the nails at Yvette.

On the bright side she's much less accurate and precise than Nai is and she seems to not be able to summon the nails very far from herself so uh. Yvette will probably be able to survive if she runs?

God damn it.

Yes, fine, she will run, but for the record? This is stupid.

"Well you see I talked to him and made a compelling argument!!!!!" she shrieks, as she bolts. Corridor, corridor, she needs fucking corners...

This place has nothing if not corners. "First you steal him and now you're going to ruin him. Just like you're messing with me!!" Nails nails nails at least Elendira isn't hyperfast like the twins. "I'm going to kill you!!!!"

Yeah, she knows, it used to be extremely annoying, but now it's honestly the greatest design choice. Full marks, random twisty corridors.

"I fail to see how killing me would win over your first goddamned crush!!"

There's a set of corners right next to each other; this shall be her ambush point. When Zazi grabbed her, she was wearing Vernon's gun, because, well, emergency, it seemed kind of important. It is in fact kind of important. She figured it was smart to wear the damn thing when surrounded by a bunch of crazy people, and for once, she kind of wishes she'd been wrong.

She waits for the right moment, aims the way Zash taught her, and then there are several bangs in quick succession. She's back to running before she sees if they even hit, because fuck that noise.

They don't all of them land. One grazes her arm. One hits her in the shoulder. One leaves a deep cut on the side of her leg. "I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU," she screams, her voice sounding distorted like the overlapping sounds of five different voices all at once. It's chasing and nails time.

Yvette isn't the best at reloading her (Vernon's) pistol under pressure, especially while running, but she is super, super motivated. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck keep running Nai could you please get here soon that would be EXCELLENT.

Around the next corner she actually collides with him directly.

"I've got you now, bitch." And here are some nails—

"No. You don't." His own blades shred Elendira's nails like so much paper, faster than the blink of an eye, and the next second the blades are surrounding her, including five of them stopped directly at her neck.

whimper

Yvette does, by now, have the combat reflexes to turn colliding into him into hiding behind him. It helps that she barely jostled him at all. (What kind of insane muscle is he even NOT THE TIME) And then she will just bravely cower behind him and finish reloading her goddamned pistol, thank you.

"Leave, Elendira. Do not come back. I do not want to see you. If you ever touch so much as a single strand of hair on Yvette's head I will hurt you before I kill you."

She bursts into tears and runs away, dripping blood from where she was shot as she goes.

"Fucking hell, I thought Conrad was a shitty parent but what the fuck," she whimpers, beginning to properly shake now that she's no longer in a direct combat situation. "Nai I'm all for mercy but I'm not sure letting her loose on the world's a good idea."

Yeah no if she wanted conversation after near death experiences she picked the wrong set of twins to fall in love with her he's just gonna hug her very very tightly right now and rock back and forth a little bit.

Squeak?

You know what, actually, being held very very tightly is great, she's all for it. She can just be held and shiver a little in his arms, that's fine.

"... I'm okay," she reassures, because actually, she's been through this sort of thing before. "Not a scratch, it's all right."

She may be feeling a teensy bit of emotion that's not hers. Just a bit, so distant and small it's barely noticeable. Would probably not be noticeable at all if she weren't used to the way Zash used to project his own feelings at her.

... Huh! She'll have to mention that to him at some point when he is not having a meltdown about her mortality, if they can work on his ability to project that'd be really handy.

As it is now she'll just. Hug him back and gently pet him.

"It's okay. I'm okay. She kind of had shit aim, actually. Worse than me, somehow!!"

"Don't talk about her. Forget about her. Don't ever die."

...

That's... really not a thing she is capable of promising.

"... Okay," she says anyway. Huff. "Did you enjoy the show at least, Zazi?"

The bug on her head buzzes happily.

It is now dead.

He finally pulls away and looks at her. "You're not hurt," he confirms, because even though she said so he was still terrified. "I'm sorry. I should've noticed earlier."

Yeah, she feels that Zazi deserved that one, to be perfectly honest.

"I'm okay. Take this as a reason to, uh, not just let the suicidal amoral human you're tortuously keeping alive just... do whatever he wants with his pet projects. Because, no, really, I think it's why you keep being surrounded by crazy people."

He shuts his eyes. "You are probably right."

...but also if Yvette wanted to be unhugged again today she'll probably need to do some arguing.

"I am absolutely right, and furthermore we should make sure she doesn't go on a murder spree or something."

Eh. It's fine. She can be hugged for a while. It's nice.