“I was teasing you.”  She smiled as she took the bar of soap and began giving him the same treatment he had given her.  She started at his shoulders and the wide expanse of his back.  She understood the feeling of his explanation even if the words were not coming together.  Vara was having a hard time collecting her thoughts as well, though she felt like many of the things on her mind were connected, she just did not know exactly how yet.<br/><br/>“I do sort of like the idea of being the moon to your sun though.  Maybe you need that.  Maybe we both do.”  He had been forced to be solitary and though she had been surrounded by people, she had never felt as if she truly belonged where she was, until now.  Not in this place, but with Geraint.  Things had fallen into place so easily.<br/><br/>She moved around him, soaping his chest and then working her way up to lather up his hair.  It was a pleasant act of care between them and she was glad to be a part of it.  “We were made to be these things, but I somehow want to believe that we can choose a different path, that even though it may be dangerous, it might be worth it...”