[He holds onto her tight as she fills the space between his arms. He remembers the last time he did this; it's painfully vivid. The way he'd elected to hold her as long as she needed to be held, no matter how inconvenient it might have been, no matter how much of his personal space he had to negotiate. That didn't matter at all. Not when it came to her.]
Are you kidding? You were more heroic than anyone else today.
[action, september twenty-fifth]
Are you kidding? You were more heroic than anyone else today.