[She is holding onto him and that godforsaken cube tighter than she's ever held onto anything. She is used to these breakneck speeds, having flown them before herself in the past, but it is a far more different experience when it's someone else doing the flying. Not that she had much of a choice...
The light is all too blinding that it takes Benedikta's eyes a few moments to readjust once they are soaring out of that tunnel, and she looks behind them just in time to see that rock shattering against the walls and the doorway. Any slower and they might have been crushed in there instead...
She makes a face, broken only by his question.]
A little... winded... but otherwise fine.
[No pun intended, but she would very much like to be set down now!!!
She does not miss the breathlessness of his voice, however, and after a beat:]
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The light is all too blinding that it takes Benedikta's eyes a few moments to readjust once they are soaring out of that tunnel, and she looks behind them just in time to see that rock shattering against the walls and the doorway. Any slower and they might have been crushed in there instead...
She makes a face, broken only by his question.]
A little... winded... but otherwise fine.
[No pun intended, but she would very much like to be set down now!!!
She does not miss the breathlessness of his voice, however, and after a beat:]
And what of you?