Maeve feels the blow and glares, doing her best to hold onto both the book and the katana, but the book falls out of her hands. "No." She won't harm Zexion as it seems that his life force or...something important is tied to the book.

"You don't deserve them." She doesn't have magic and she's not certain that she can use what abilities she does have in this memory. "Maybe if you'd treat them better. They're children."