Once again he startles her, and as he drapes his jacket over her shoulders she looks up at him in surprise. And unsurety, as though she doesn’t quite know what to do with such… kindness. Such care. But after a moment, she wraps shivering fingers around the lapel and tugs it around her.

She nods, and when he presses her into his side, trying to protect her… she lets him. For the first time in… she forgets how long, someone is trying to protect her. He doesn’t even know her… “This way.”