His own arm is solid and steady and as much as it breaks his heart to see her like this, not even a sliver of that appears in his expression.

Instead, he just rests his hand on her elbow once she's up, and walks with her back out of the mess hall. It's not the shortest walk, all the way down to the sixth level, so as they walk he tells her a dumb story about one time that he was on shore leave on Ceres and things didn't go as well as they should have, and it involved waking up in various unexpected places and a good deal of gambling.

"-- luckily we shipped out the next day, so I just slipped out as quickly and quietly as I could, and let the ride to Saturn take the rest of the edge off."

When they got to the door, he reached out and pressed the control panel, the door sliding open.