Varney squeezed her a little tighter, and she clung to him, shaking in long helpless tremors. “I, for my part, am so sorry it has taken us this long to find and rescue you,” he said, and with her ear against his chest, she could both hear and feel his voice. “Only you seem to be largely self-rescuing, which does not in fact surprise me in the least. Also you appear to have a passenger,” he added as the wellmonsterlet on her shoulder glupped at him.
