[ It's a different skill entirely, pulling someone while on skates, but the balancing maneuver element of this isn't entirely unfamiliar: he can remember doing similar for at least one date in Gorky Park, albeit with an adult's sense of balance and not a girl's. Still, he manages to tow her to the mouth of the rink and then to the first bench they encounter. Fortunately nobody else is using it to lace or unlace their skates at the moment; he gets the sense that she probably wouldn't react well to her breakdown having an audience.
There's no shock blanket, but his winter uniform shirt is at least pretty heavy. Vasiliy unbuttons the front and strips down to the white Hanes tee shirt beneath, then drapes the dark navy fabric of his long-sleeved overshirt over her narrow shoulders—a comforting, grounding weight, hopefully. ]
Just take some deep breaths. There is a lot of people trying to find the way out of here.
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[ It's a different skill entirely, pulling someone while on skates, but the balancing maneuver element of this isn't entirely unfamiliar: he can remember doing similar for at least one date in Gorky Park, albeit with an adult's sense of balance and not a girl's. Still, he manages to tow her to the mouth of the rink and then to the first bench they encounter. Fortunately nobody else is using it to lace or unlace their skates at the moment; he gets the sense that she probably wouldn't react well to her breakdown having an audience.
There's no shock blanket, but his winter uniform shirt is at least pretty heavy. Vasiliy unbuttons the front and strips down to the white Hanes tee shirt beneath, then drapes the dark navy fabric of his long-sleeved overshirt over her narrow shoulders—a comforting, grounding weight, hopefully. ]
Just take some deep breaths. There is a lot of people trying to find the way out of here.