[More because he has to resurface for air at some point than anything else, he finally looks up. Though, if it's just Ed's face he wants to see, he doesn't strictly need to look up at all.]

Well... they didn't say it like that. Not out loud. Not to me, anyway. But I know some of them started to think it after a while.

[He squeezes, if possible, even tighter.]

We were worried, you know! You could've told someone where you were going before you left. [There's a probably familiar shade of reproach in his voice, but it has nothing on the magnitude of the relief shining in those big grey eyes of his. (Yes, grey.)]