“Watch your balance,” Lance said after Xian gripped his hand and took a step forward. The added uneven weight did make the boat rock quite a lot, forcing Xian to grip Lance’s hand even harder as he tried to keep to his feet. The other man advised, “Lower your body into a crouch.”
Xian quickly moved to obey.
As he bent his knees and back until he was in a weird half-sitting-in-the-air and half-kneeling-over-the-boat position, the man whose hand he was still tightly holding remained standing upright, such that when Xian looked up at his face, which now had the blue midday sky as its background, it made for a very… interesting view.
Lest he got blinded, Xian lowered his eyes at once, but things became even more hairy when he instead looked in front of him… only to find that he was now eye
