[There was something powerful about touch. So much could be said with just the lightest of brushes of fingers, the flat of a palm on the small of the back. His words earn a slight widening of the eyes, a bit of a harder swallow than she'd intended.]

Well...if you think about it this way, we managed this much in a place like this. I'm sure there's a place somewhere that would be much better suited to make things work. But... [And there's a slight pause. He was being rather open, wasn't he? And they were starting fresh, weren't they? Better to be up front and honest, even if it was silly.] do you mean that its painful because its here, in the Tower. Or do you mean...that its painful...between us..?