It takes him a second (one more glance over his shoulder, one more intake of breath) before he takes her hand and then they head out into the hallway.

Except it's not the laundry they walk back into; he honestly shouldn't be surprised to find that they've returned to Milliways, somewhere upstairs in a corridor - dimly lit, but he's not all that surprised by that either.

"Guess y'gotta take the good with the bad," he says.