[He notices the water getting higher inside the bubble than it is outside around the same time she does and a part of him wants to just stop and watch because he's never seen any actual physical evidence of the bubbles before, but it seems prudent not to chance anything here.
He smiles and pushes back a long strand of hair she missed, and then uses that same hand to cup the side of her head as he leans down to kiss her, warm but light and relatively unassuming - at least for him.]