[Somewhere under all the mud she is proud of him.]
For now. [She doesn't let them get very far, either, feeling they ought to stop regardless of the muck beneath them. Their passenger won't last a walk to anywhere pretending to be defensible. Mia doesn't say anything, hoping Billy gets the idea when she starts to lower him to the ground so she can sink down there with him.
She reels, then, flooded with the sensation of something like rain in her eyes; as soon as it passes she starts trying to heal her unfortunate MSF stranger.]
Don't leave. [Almost too quiet to be heard over the shouting, but she's looking at Billy directly.]
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For now. [She doesn't let them get very far, either, feeling they ought to stop regardless of the muck beneath them. Their passenger won't last a walk to anywhere pretending to be defensible. Mia doesn't say anything, hoping Billy gets the idea when she starts to lower him to the ground so she can sink down there with him.
She reels, then, flooded with the sensation of something like rain in her eyes; as soon as it passes she starts trying to heal her unfortunate MSF stranger.]
Don't leave. [Almost too quiet to be heard over the shouting, but she's looking at Billy directly.]