[action!]

[Wrapping his fingers around the handle of the umbrella, he attempts to stand again at Lightning's guidance. He nearly drops the umbrella when that same hand automatically goes to grasp at her forearm for balance, the thing sort of getting shuffled around in the process and ending up somehow balanced in the crook of an elbow. Once he's on both feet again, however, and without slipping and sliding around—he'll be grabbing at it again.]

I missed Baldr too. Um... he didn't track paint all over my room, did he? [Somehow, as soon as she mentioned home... that seemed to conjur up a distant memory of his paint can getting knocked over in whatever struggle he was going through. Oops.]