Helpless, Verity gave Percy the only thing she could. She held him tight, and didn't say anything about the fact that, just this once, he wasn't freezing like a statue. "You told me," she whispered into his hair. "You told me he loves you. The brainless tw- idiot doesn't deserve you, but he loves you, right?"
She didn't care who was looking or what Wood would think. She held on.