[To her credit, she learned her lesson about sentimentality at the garden. Still, his mention of the hat makes her notice it, and as it falls, her head turns. There's a distressed look on her face and she inhales sharply, until she realizes that... as dumb luck would have it, she'd caught it on her foot.
How?]
I... [Even she can't believe it.] I got it. I think.
[All she has to do is reach down and get it so it's not dangling and threatening to fall. But that'd be such an insult to his efforts, she doesn't even consider it. Noticing that she's that much closer to the edge, she grabs at it and finally starts to crawl her way up while being careful. She grunts and manages to get her elbow up, too, with her other hand clamped firmly against IV's.
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[To her credit, she learned her lesson about sentimentality at the garden. Still, his mention of the hat makes her notice it, and as it falls, her head turns. There's a distressed look on her face and she inhales sharply, until she realizes that... as dumb luck would have it, she'd caught it on her foot.
How?]
I... [Even she can't believe it.] I got it. I think.
[All she has to do is reach down and get it so it's not dangling and threatening to fall. But that'd be such an insult to his efforts, she doesn't even consider it. Noticing that she's that much closer to the edge, she grabs at it and finally starts to crawl her way up while being careful. She grunts and manages to get her elbow up, too, with her other hand clamped firmly against IV's.
Just a little upper body strength from there.
Hopefully.]