[PQ] Quality Assurance Testing

Ashe cut off her attack the moment the attention of the ascended settled on her mother. She snapped her eyes to the pair, and something painfully hot seared in her chest as he addressed her and... child? Her eyes went wide, hear heart thundered in her ears as she looked her mother over. Was her mother... was her mother pregnant?    Then Vervain backhanded Archebold hard, and she was immediately at her mother's side with electricity flickering across her form, barrier forgotten for the moment. Her eyes flickered gold and she felt her teeth sharpen as she glared fiercely up at the ascended. She said nothing, her own pulse thumming loudly in her ears as every sense sharpened to painful clarity.    "Do not touch my mother," she warned darkly, ignoring the ice prickling down her spine.