[Lenore blinks at him for a moment, but then she lets go. A distant part of her is aware that he may not handle the situation the same way she would handle the situation, but it's taken out of her hands. She can stop.
Without the burden in her hands, she lifts immediately back above the water, dripping but no longer at risk of drowning. There's nothing to discuss, and she's not even sure she can manage words right now. So she just goes, drifting back to the turtle because even the transformation of bats is more coordination than she possesses at the moment. She finds Gideon, who is the person she knows and trusts best on the turtle's back--ironic, perhaps, since they only met once before all this happened--and curls up beside her, dropping immediately into unconsciousness.]
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Without the burden in her hands, she lifts immediately back above the water, dripping but no longer at risk of drowning. There's nothing to discuss, and she's not even sure she can manage words right now. So she just goes, drifting back to the turtle because even the transformation of bats is more coordination than she possesses at the moment. She finds Gideon, who is the person she knows and trusts best on the turtle's back--ironic, perhaps, since they only met once before all this happened--and curls up beside her, dropping immediately into unconsciousness.]