Feeling around the floor, Nessie felt the hope she was clinging to slip away. "It's alr-Ow!" She turned toward the voice and lifted her head, forgetting for a moment that there was a table top just above her and banged it against the underside. She shifted so she could sit and look up at the other woman, smiling brightly when she recognised her. "Brigid! What are you doing up there?"