Re: ransom + mariner.
Mariner's eyes went comically (even a little alarmingly) wide when Ransom had the gall to take her drink from her and then touch her back.
"Did you just-" She was speechless. Perhaps too furious to formulate thought. She blinked several times, nostrils flaring. And then, throat spiders were mentioned. "What the hell is throat spiders? Is that some kind of archaic Earth STD?"