Gosh, when you say it like that, it really sounds worse than it was.
[ Some nervous laughter punctuates her reply. Having grown up around mountains where avalanches were common, Hilda knows exactly how deadly they can be. It doesn't escape her how lucky they had been that they had scraped by without lasting physical injury. What also coincidentally escapes her is how Holst's nattering about avalanche survival had been unearthed in her brain at a very convenient time.
Something a little more serious settles in her features at the mention of Petra however. ]
She's okay now - and lucky too that it wasn't anything really serious. She was pretty reluctant to stay at the hospital to be honest, but it wasn't something some doe eyes and eyelash batting couldn't change.
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[ Some nervous laughter punctuates her reply. Having grown up around mountains where avalanches were common, Hilda knows exactly how deadly they can be. It doesn't escape her how lucky they had been that they had scraped by without lasting physical injury. What also coincidentally escapes her is how Holst's nattering about avalanche survival had been unearthed in her brain at a very convenient time.
Something a little more serious settles in her features at the mention of Petra however. ]
She's okay now - and lucky too that it wasn't anything really serious. She was pretty reluctant to stay at the hospital to be honest, but it wasn't something some doe eyes and eyelash batting couldn't change.