[Before he can even think to answer, the boat is rocked and he's also scrambling to keep some balance. He's also reaching out to her, more out of instinct to try and keep her from falling over. Yet it all ends up being a wash with how they both go down.
Again he covers her, cushioning her fall, but more than that—]
—Augh!
[—because of how he had turned when they fell, he ends up taking the horn to his left shoulder—why always the left?!?—the pained yell escaping him as he lurches against her while the horn swings this way and that to cut more into his back before it pulls back, high pitched keens like shrieks echoing through the air.]
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Again he covers her, cushioning her fall, but more than that—]
—Augh!
[—because of how he had turned when they fell, he ends up taking the horn to his left shoulder—why always the left?!?—the pained yell escaping him as he lurches against her while the horn swings this way and that to cut more into his back before it pulls back, high pitched keens like shrieks echoing through the air.]