It was a dangerous thing, two people like them holding each other up. And yet at the same time they were all the sturdier for it, because it was only when you knew a break that you could anticipate and compensate for the weaknesses it left behind. She knew the abyss that was threatening to swallow him, and that made her all the more determined to keep him from falling in.

She nodded. "I'm ready to go back in now," she said. Which wasn't exactly a yes, but it was as close to yes as she could honestly be.