( there's too much feeling in clara's answer for it not to matter. barely a heartbeat. it's information she stores away for later, not wanting to get distracted from their task.

though she finds that she already has been slightly, with river now looking across at clara, paused from her task )

I'd ask you where-- ( there's that past tense, too. she's got two thoughts about that. but not the time ) --but we've got something bigger to do. Almost one hundred people trapped. I don't plan on staying that way..

( she's hoping to motivate clara into helping, into doing what she and the doctor do best without specifically having to say the words. please help )