I couldn't even if I wanted to, ❰ he says – though it's pretty clear hewants to. ❱ She couldn't kill you, either. There's a failsafe in the symbiote, a killswitch that keeps us from killing each other. As long as she's part of the nest, she'll pass out before she can do any real damage.

❰ not that that's all that much of a comfort, when the danger lakshmi poses is so much more about how she can make elena feel. she doesn't have to try to kill her to wound her. ❱