... We'll both have to make sure to have a nice long bath once we're safe. We don't want sand and salt getting in any of those cuts. It's bad enough now, isn't it?

[ Just... keep talking about safety. About the eventuality, not the possibility, of a safe place. The less they think about the dark and the unfamiliar shoreline, the better.

At least, that's what Dia wants. But then a gunshot rings out through the darkness -- distant, but close enough to crack through the quiet and she freezes, her grip on Ruby's hand tightening to the point of pain. ]

... stay very quiet for a moment.