The brief asked for the body mid-sentence, and a dragon-tamer gives me the perfect co-star: an animal that will feel any tremor she doesn't allow herself. So I put the tension in the knuckles — the calming hand is soft, the anchor hand is white-knuckled, and her face is doing arithmetic instead of feeling. She's competent, she's fine, and she isn't, all in one held breath at the steaming berth. — Nyx