It has to do with the whole Shadow thing I told you about before. It probably doesn't matter here but...

[ She still wants to shudder even thinking about it. If she had the lightning rat, she'd probably be instinctively trying to get out of the way every time it tried to do an attack.

Though at least Athrun doesn't have that much trouble with the Pikachu. ]

Yeah. We... should get better at this once we know more about how all of this works.