[ She considers a moment, then sinks down to settle next to him. Holding hands is actually pretty nice? It's kind of nice to have associations beyond just "one or both of us are on the brink of death." ]

I dunno... if you can feel it, do you need to talk about it? But also, just leaving them as-is probably won't do any real good, if there's something wrong. I can see the points for doing either.