It hadn't even occurred to Lock that he could take the boy out of the water first — for some reason, seeing them together in the water had more or less locked them into one composite unit in his mind. Her directions, however, were quite sensible, and Lock lifted the small child rather easily out of the edge of the lake. Holding him on his hip with the ease of an experienced father, he then turned his attention to the woman in the water and offered her his free hand. "Your turn," he said simply, ignoring the freezing water slowly soaking into his side from the child.