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He held it out to her, chuckling. "It looks like someone tried to fill him with air." Not like any seal he'd ever seen back on earth.

"I wonder if those guys live here, or maybe used to live here, " he amended as he looked around them at what appeared to be a barren landscape. If there were animals on mercury they weren't hanging out here, or at the very least were hiding. He honestly couldn't have said.

He looked back up at her, and the look on her face made him smile fondly. "Do you wanna keep it?"

Well it wasn't as if he had any use for the thing beside to keep it as some sort of unique paper weight. "You keep him, then. He'll have a good home with you." And he handed it over again.

With his hands free he pushed himself up once again and brushed off his butt and the backs of this thighs. "I wonder how long we've been here." It somehow managed to feel like they'd only just arrived, while also feeling as though they'd been there for hours. It was a peculiar feeling, and Baikal wondered if it was him, or the wonder itself. Hard to say.

He slung and arm around Rory's shoulders to drag her in against his side so he could lay a kiss on her temple. "Maybe we should get you back before you turn into a popsicle out here, what do you think?" They could always come back and explore another day.

He laughed as he looked down at her, hands moving to her back to try to rub the warmth back into her through the thick coat she was wearing. "Yeah, we can get hot chocolate. If you still want it after we get back to that summer heat." A few minutes back on earth and they'd be hot again.

Well, he would.

But they could still get hot chocolate if she wanted to.

He gave her a little squeeze and grinned down at her, and then closed his eyes. In a blink they were back in the park, with the heat of the late summer air closing in around them.