She stared at their hands and belatedly realized that he was waiting for her to say something. "...Mm."

Now, though, her heart was beating doubly fast and loud she wondered if he could hear it. Such a silly thought, though Tomoko attributed it to a short story she was writing for class. She was at the part where the wolves were about to devour a young blind girl lost in the woods when Ryusei called that afternoon. Suddenly she had a deeper understanding of how the girl felt, about dreading what was to come yet not knowing any of it.

Of course, the difference being that she could ask. "Where are we going?"