[his touch is the first time, in all of this, that it actually occurs to her to question what they're doing...to remember that this isn't home and Geordie and a city where they could be as recognized or anonymous as they wished.
He touched her hand, and she felt the first nagging concerns...before he spoke and she shrugged them away. After all, he was smiling, which was exactly what she'd set out to do. And it was Horatio. There was nothing to worry about.
So she smiles and nods and pulls herself up the ladder. It's slower than she might be in sunlight, but the distance between the rungs is predictable and it doesn't take her long before she can hoist herself over the railing and on to the safety of the Britannia's deck.]
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[his touch is the first time, in all of this, that it actually occurs to her to question what they're doing...to remember that this isn't home and Geordie and a city where they could be as recognized or anonymous as they wished.
He touched her hand, and she felt the first nagging concerns...before he spoke and she shrugged them away. After all, he was smiling, which was exactly what she'd set out to do. And it was Horatio. There was nothing to worry about.
So she smiles and nods and pulls herself up the ladder. It's slower than she might be in sunlight, but the distance between the rungs is predictable and it doesn't take her long before she can hoist herself over the railing and on to the safety of the Britannia's deck.]