<span style="color: #BF00BF"><span style="font-style: italic">Tobias...</span> she thought to herself, her eyes having long since lost any semblance of themselves to be replaced with the reflection of his own. His eyes held her own, though she'd wanted to tear away from his gaze ages ago. It was hard, the full eye-contact. Any time she made eye contact at her "home" for the past eighteen years, without being told to, she got some form of punishment. But he...He made it so easy...<br/><br/>Just like the flirting.<br/><br/>It was a concept she'd never entertained, never tried. She'd read about it. Always wondered what it'd be like to do it. And here she was, flirting with the most wonderful man in existence. Sure, she wasn't perfect, but it was a start. Something about him just made her want to throw caution to the wind, to have fun for the first time in her life. ...But then that little niggling voice in the back of her mind reminded her what would happen, and she refrained.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">As long as I stay properly covered up, I should be fine, right?</span> she reasoned. <span style="font-style: italic">I can help him have a good day, as repayment for what he's done, and then can leave knowing he's alright.</span><br/><br/>The tongue moving over his lips didn't go unnoticed but rather had her own dart out as she stopped nibbling, focusing on his other movements. His words. Nodding in reply to his words, her lips quirked up in smile, albeit a slightly nervous one, and stood up. Pulling her hood up, she loosely fashioned the scarf around her face, eyes once again the only thing visible. Sure, he'd probably think her crazy, being that it was getting hotter with each passing moment, but, in her mind, heat exhaustion was a slight inconvenience when it came in comparison to causing someone's death.<br/><br/>Throwing a wave to Samuele and his wife, eyes light with the signs of a smile, even if they couldn't see it, she slanted a look at Tobias. In a moment of weakness, she touched his arm. It was nothing big, just touching the tips of her fingers to the side of his upper arm, before looking at him head on with an even bigger smile. Sliding her fingers down his arm, they eventually dropped off completely, she nodded. "Lead the way."<br/><br/>The words may have been casually spoken, her tone light, but inside, she was as happy as she thought she ever would be. She touched someone, and they didn't die. Sure it hadn't been skin to skin, but it still counted in her book.</span>