About half the time he wouldn’t have, because he’s usually facing forwards when he leads orientations. But today, when Steve opened the doors out to the subsector streets, he’d just turned his head around to make sure that Caitlin followed him out okay. So he sees her hand reaching out, and then fall to her side.
Maybe if her welcomer had been someone else, things would be different. But Steve was old-fashioned. If a dame reached for his arm, he can’t just keep her hanging.
So he walks back to her until he’s at her side, and he offers his arm.
“I’m afraid so. We’re underground, so expansion, as I’ve been told, is more difficult than normal.” Something about how they’d have to dig and make sure they don’t break anything structural and collapse the whole thing. But Steve hadn’t really investigated that area of the Complex.
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About half the time he wouldn’t have, because he’s usually facing forwards when he leads orientations. But today, when Steve opened the doors out to the subsector streets, he’d just turned his head around to make sure that Caitlin followed him out okay. So he sees her hand reaching out, and then fall to her side.
Maybe if her welcomer had been someone else, things would be different. But Steve was old-fashioned. If a dame reached for his arm, he can’t just keep her hanging.
So he walks back to her until he’s at her side, and he offers his arm.
“I’m afraid so. We’re underground, so expansion, as I’ve been told, is more difficult than normal.” Something about how they’d have to dig and make sure they don’t break anything structural and collapse the whole thing. But Steve hadn’t really investigated that area of the Complex.