She barely even heard him. Everything seemed to meld together in her mind--hadn't she been learning how to use materia only a few seconds ago? And then Vincent's weird dance and Elena spun around with a knife and then...Vincent seemed to ripple, almost, and...and then he pulled a gun on her but didn't fire and Elena wasn't moving--it had to be a materia thing, but...stopping time? Her mind was absolutely boggled; she'd always figured that it happened in some logical way, involving relativity to slow time with light inundation or something.

The confusion over how the stop spell worked wasn't the worst of it. "What the hell just happened?! Vin, is she--are you--" Her voice broke as she remembered the way he'd kind of collapsed into himself, hunching over. "God," she managed, trying to keep her panicked breathing from being too noticeable. Stupid fucking hormone! God, she was kind of wheezing, stupid illogical tears building in her eyes. She knew why they were there, that the injection was toying with her emotions, and it only made her more upset. "Vin, what just--" She still had no idea how it had gone from a rather friendly meeting to...to this.