Mario's romantic experience with Millicent Kent (p. 122)
The U.S.S. Millicent Kent stowed a tennis ball in each hip pocket and took Mario’s claw and said here to walk this way and she’d show him real quick, and get his like feedback on the issue, and plus have a witness when they got back and she told people about it. […] With the girl supporting him with one hand and beating an easement through the brush with the other they proceeded deeper into the thicket on the lip.
Context
She takes the claw the way you'd take a hand — no flinch, no comment — and supports him through the brush one-armed: Mario's body handled as plain logistics by someone who, we're about to learn, actively likes it.