[ She looks at him, evaluating what he says. Then she looks toward where the pier joins the beach, up near the parking lot. (She's not thinking about the parking lot or how insane cars are right now. It's too much.) ]
If that's what you want to do, I'll come along. Though it's not the tool that caused the trouble.
[ It's a small measure that doesn't prevent repeat performances with other such toys, if there's a perpetrator behind it all in the first place who walks away. She doesn't say this, instead leaving her quite observation there for him to take in or not. Annie isn't the general instigator, more from habit than a desire to walk away.
Though she would not like to be thrown back into the ocean again anytime soon. ]
which makes it all the greater
If that's what you want to do, I'll come along. Though it's not the tool that caused the trouble.
[ It's a small measure that doesn't prevent repeat performances with other such toys, if there's a perpetrator behind it all in the first place who walks away. She doesn't say this, instead leaving her quite observation there for him to take in or not. Annie isn't the general instigator, more from habit than a desire to walk away.
Though she would not like to be thrown back into the ocean again anytime soon. ]