[He whirls, at first, from the hapless native he'd stopped. Taken off balance by a presence so familiar, so accepted by him that she slid into his guard without it even lifting the hairs on the back of his neck.
Alarm and surprise, clear on his face as the cool, cloudless winter sky, both step aside, making way for the procession of relief and joy in their equal measure. No thought of selfishness, nor in sparing her. This whole foreign, confusing and slightly menacing world seemed trivial or, at the least, less indomitable than it had a moment before.]
My dear Captain, [He resists the urge to simply sweep her up, off of her feet, and settles for taking her hand, a deep bow over it.] You, alone, are a necessary answer.
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Alarm and surprise, clear on his face as the cool, cloudless winter sky, both step aside, making way for the procession of relief and joy in their equal measure. No thought of selfishness, nor in sparing her. This whole foreign, confusing and slightly menacing world seemed trivial or, at the least, less indomitable than it had a moment before.]
My dear Captain, [He resists the urge to simply sweep her up, off of her feet, and settles for taking her hand, a deep bow over it.] You, alone, are a necessary answer.