"You will." Stubborn, insistent. "Even if it's just so I can tell you I told you so 'cause you're acting like a bit of a dick, yeah, you will."

Christ. This sucked a lot already, with the long hours of dark and the endless gnawing cold. She dips her head to kiss the top of the head of the little creature hidding away under her coat, and and pulls at a different blanket, lightly. '

"Don't be so bloody patronising. There's people out there looking for ways out, keeping us stocked in all that fish, making broth so we all god enough grub to go about. Just hunker down with all of us so we get your body heat, you get ours, and we can all have a better chance of pulling through this."