I could do nothing other than clench my jaw in what I assumed to be mild irritation when her head lolled backwards, and I did my best to toss her upwards slightly, so that her head would fall forward and land on my shoulder instead. If I had to be completely honest with myself, I wasn’t at all shocked by the fact that she had fainted—I may even have been expecting it, without knowing it.
I tilted my head so that I would be able to see her face, so that I would be able to see if her eyes opened. Her cheek was being pushed up in this strange manner, something that I guessed was to blame on the fact that she has slipped slightly when her body had returned to a state of stability after I had tossed her upwards.
I took in the wild way in which her eyebrows grew, somehow managing to retain t
