[He jerks at the smack; that brief moment of being slightly off-balance sets his heart racing. Normally he'd take it like nothing, but geez, up here on the cliff . . .

He steadies himself and plays off the deep breath he just took. Ha ha. It's all good. We're good! We're all alive here!]

H, heh, yeah, good point. Good point! We've got this . . . you're gonna stick with me, right? Your little glowy guy's pretty handy, too.

[Hi, Widget.]