[Jetshard arrives on the scene just at the end of the sequence - there had been enough noise to draw her attention, but between the mist and the enormous, twisting tree roots, visibility is not exactly great in this part of the forest, so she has not actually seen anything beyond Noctis' final confrontation with his doppelganger.
She is fairly certain that the oozing version is the dream. Not completely, though, and as she creeps up on the upsetting tableau and reaches for her strife deck, her fingers slip past the knifekind card and dip into the needlekind one instead.
But she's made the right call, and when the hypodermic of sedative pierces the figment's neck, the dream-Noctis dissolves away into inert mist, the way the dreams do when attacked. Jetshard lets out a breath she hadn't been consciously aware of holding, as she lets the hand holding the needle drop to her side.]
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She is fairly certain that the oozing version is the dream. Not completely, though, and as she creeps up on the upsetting tableau and reaches for her strife deck, her fingers slip past the knifekind card and dip into the needlekind one instead.
But she's made the right call, and when the hypodermic of sedative pierces the figment's neck, the dream-Noctis dissolves away into inert mist, the way the dreams do when attacked. Jetshard lets out a breath she hadn't been consciously aware of holding, as she lets the hand holding the needle drop to her side.]