You’re more than a little panicked now, but you can’t help but feel proud of Marnet, at least a little bit.
You tell Buddy it did a good job standing up for itself, and that this wasn’t its fault. You had a lapse in judgment due to being a collective, and you’ll try to keep things in check for next time. It thanks you quietly, still taken aback at what just happened.
You tell Marnet that punching her may not have been necessary, but it’s good to stand up for her friends- she interrupts you and says that it was the right thing to do, and that she did it because she wanted to, more than anything you said-