"I have never..." He looked down at his booted feet, and then at the water. Gerome had never done something so frivolous in his life. It seemed so unnecessary, perhaps even a waste of time. But wasn't that why they were there? To waste time. To relax for a short while before they would be once again trapped aboard the train?

"... Nice, is it?" Dare he do something so... Un-Gerome-like?