[ She turns her head and really looks, hand inching the rest of the way into his. ]

I am afraid of what it will do. If it will drive me mad, or if it is a beacon for the creature to find me again. It has already been here on the Barge once, what if there is no one here to beat it back?

I was... so certain it had come again, that it had turned the Barge into that corrupted place.