Duke tilted his head slightly, to give her as much access as she liked. He kept his eyes closed, part of him sure if he opened them, she'd be gone again. That this whole thing would turn out to be a really long fever dream or something.

He was starting to see why she'd been so anxious for him to stop talking, when she first got back.

"Good," Duke said after a moment. "Because I'm going to want to do it all the time."