[ Thank God he drops it. Catherine is still internally fuming for a second longer, fastidiously ignoring that her anger is in fact a cover for deep hurt at his revealed lack of faith in her, and then, as always, obstinately pushes past it when he does.
Good, okay, she can handle these factual questions. It takes a little longer for her fingers to unclench enough to go back to examining the dive suit's live support systems, which she does with professional, sure fingers. She's done this particular maintenance many times before, and it shows. Like an astronaut, don't go wandering out into the ocean without equipment you've personally checked over first. ]
That's not a bad idea, [ she answers, even sounding just faintly sympathetic. ] I asked that the ARK be kept safe in space, so you don't need to worry about that. [ It's a concern that had gotten her killed, once upon a time, so Catherine found it weighing heavily on her mind when she'd been asked what she wanted. ]
Well, you don't look too bad, [ she declares finally. It's pretty obvious to someone who's partially lived in one of these things for the past five years that he's taken it out for its intended purpose recently. ] But if you're going to keep going out in the water in this, I want to tweak a few things. The structure gel should be fine submerged, obviously, but I don't know about the rest of you. [ Introducing water to a corpse seems like a great way to get it to decompose real fast, and Simon's body composition has always seemed a miraculous, precarious balance to Catherine. Best not to mess with it. ]
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Good, okay, she can handle these factual questions. It takes a little longer for her fingers to unclench enough to go back to examining the dive suit's live support systems, which she does with professional, sure fingers. She's done this particular maintenance many times before, and it shows. Like an astronaut, don't go wandering out into the ocean without equipment you've personally checked over first. ]
That's not a bad idea, [ she answers, even sounding just faintly sympathetic. ] I asked that the ARK be kept safe in space, so you don't need to worry about that. [ It's a concern that had gotten her killed, once upon a time, so Catherine found it weighing heavily on her mind when she'd been asked what she wanted. ]
Well, you don't look too bad, [ she declares finally. It's pretty obvious to someone who's partially lived in one of these things for the past five years that he's taken it out for its intended purpose recently. ] But if you're going to keep going out in the water in this, I want to tweak a few things. The structure gel should be fine submerged, obviously, but I don't know about the rest of you. [ Introducing water to a corpse seems like a great way to get it to decompose real fast, and Simon's body composition has always seemed a miraculous, precarious balance to Catherine. Best not to mess with it. ]