She laughed at herself. Then she brought her hand up toward her face – and it collided with her helmet. Dumb. She’d had the helmet on for so long she’d forgotten it was there. Grinning at her stupidity, she reached up and triggered the latches on her helmet. Took it off and laid it gently on one of the examination beds.
You know, I was thinking about this earlier when it was happening, but how did she chew on that tongue depressor without taking off her helmet before? She must have, right? And yet here, we have her sniffing the air for the first time (in the next paragraph) and identifying smells.
