[It's probably not a fight he could win - especially not completely enough to affect any sort of change. It's difficult for one boy to stop a wave, after all.]
[And she just looks up at him calmly through that impulse (she might have had to compensate for it if he'd actually acted on it, but as it is, she can stay still a few moments). That movement of his hand, though, that gets the attention of her eyes. It's not hard to tell what he'd intended. ... Well. They're both dangerous, but so far nothing like it has caused too much trouble, so what's one more little touch? She reaches out at an unhurried pace, in case he should change his mind on the subject, then... gently takes his much larger hand in one of hers before bringing over the other to help hold on. Then,]
... We're going to be okay. Both of us. Things like this-- they pass.
[In the Tower, anyway. She's done not having faith in that - they both need it right now.]
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It's difficult for one boy to stop a wave, after all.][And she just looks up at him calmly through that impulse (she might have had to compensate for it if he'd actually acted on it, but as it is, she can stay still a few moments). That movement of his hand, though, that gets the attention of her eyes. It's not hard to tell what he'd intended. ... Well. They're both dangerous, but so far nothing like it has caused too much trouble, so what's one more little touch? She reaches out at an unhurried pace, in case he should change his mind on the subject, then... gently takes his much larger hand in one of hers before bringing over the other to help hold on. Then,]
... We're going to be okay. Both of us. Things like this-- they pass.
[In the Tower, anyway. She's done not having faith in that - they both need it right now.]