"...Wait, what?"

She's almost out of earshot anyway, and as he wanders over to the edge of the trail, he's left to ponder why the hell it would be harder the second time. That doesn't make sense to him. If he's done it once without screwing up, he can totally do it a second time without screwing up, which is more than he can say about getting off, but he'll get to that when he gets to that.

Whatever, he's got this.