He would indeed. Life would go on, other fares would be had. And Adam and Emma would laugh breathlessly in an elevator.

At the touch, he only startled a little, eyes snapping to her curiously. In truth, he knew it as well as she did - friends weren't something he had many of - and he knew that a place named the City of Sin was probably to be traversed carefully. There was no touch of Cabeswater around here, just the unfamiliar taint of whatever was attacking it.

"Okay," he agreed after a second, shifting to nudge his hand against hers in return. Then he offered a non-sequitur to go with it, an offer of what was so complicated about his life right that moment. "I think something's trying to take over my eye."

Just in case she wanted to get away from him now, before it happened.