Peggy turned on one heel and started her careful walk back towards the cave's mouth. Their makeshift bed -- she thought of it almost with sentimentality, she found -- would have to be packed away into their satchels. Stored. Any hint of their presence scrubbed from the earth, and then (contrary to what Logan hypothesized) Peggy would want them venturing deeper into the city itself. Perhaps not by the higher road, for she didn't relish the thought of the climb. But so long as the river-bed could be followed in a direction that was once up-stream, she wondered if they might not locate a better point of egress.
"I can manage. And I'll manage better yet with a gentlemanly arm, which I have every scrap of faith will be offered me once we begin again--"
The sweetness -- the warmth -- of the night had seeped away. Horror and her unwavering sense of duty had shoved affection rudely aside, so that the steady tap-tap of her pulse as he'd caressed her neck and ear was a forceful but distant memory. Kept under lock and key for both their sakes.
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Peggy turned on one heel and started her careful walk back towards the cave's mouth. Their makeshift bed -- she thought of it almost with sentimentality, she found -- would have to be packed away into their satchels. Stored. Any hint of their presence scrubbed from the earth, and then (contrary to what Logan hypothesized) Peggy would want them venturing deeper into the city itself. Perhaps not by the higher road, for she didn't relish the thought of the climb. But so long as the river-bed could be followed in a direction that was once up-stream, she wondered if they might not locate a better point of egress.
"I can manage. And I'll manage better yet with a gentlemanly arm, which I have every scrap of faith will be offered me once we begin again--"
The sweetness -- the warmth -- of the night had seeped away. Horror and her unwavering sense of duty had shoved affection rudely aside, so that the steady tap-tap of her pulse as he'd caressed her neck and ear was a forceful but distant memory. Kept under lock and key for both their sakes.