Then suddenly a voice, in the female timbre and very tentative.

The first officer's tentative voice spoke again after a long moment.

"She could always hide from him," Kirsty said at last in a tentative voice.

"Doesn't actually appear to be anything wrong with it," came back a quiet, tentative voice.

He tried to close his ears to the sound of Tilgin's tentative voice.

And then a tentative voice called from the darkness.

Then a new voice, soft and tentative, broke into our thoughts.

A moment later he was surprised to hear a tentative voice call his name.

In a tentative voice he addressed the darkening gray sky.

"You're out and about late this evening," observed a tentative voice behind her.