[What Clara's saying doesn't make any sense at all, but Caitlyn files it away for later - hopefully to ask Clara about rather than impart to the Doctor. No, not hopefully. Definitely. She's not going to allow anything to happen to Clara.
On the count of three, Caitlyn leans back, ready to take Clara's weight. The rope goes taut, and she slowly starts to haul upwards. Not too fast, for risk of breaking the banister, and not too slow, because the longer Clara's dangling over nothing the greater the risk becomes.
Despite her best efforts, she hears an ominous creak from the banister.]
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[What Clara's saying doesn't make any sense at all, but Caitlyn files it away for later - hopefully to ask Clara about rather than impart to the Doctor. No, not hopefully. Definitely. She's not going to allow anything to happen to Clara.
On the count of three, Caitlyn leans back, ready to take Clara's weight. The rope goes taut, and she slowly starts to haul upwards. Not too fast, for risk of breaking the banister, and not too slow, because the longer Clara's dangling over nothing the greater the risk becomes.
Despite her best efforts, she hears an ominous creak from the banister.]
Are you almost up? Can you grab hold of anything?