The instant he, himself, noticed the change in the room and felt the thoughts and sensations, he pushed against the onslaught of the memories and slowly forced them back to where they came, but not before it became too much for her to bear and the loud objection rang through the two of them. "I am sorry," he said. "I shouldn't have thought of that..."<br/><br/>He gently kissed her forehead and, unknowingly, passed something he'd been experienced long ago on to her. It wouldn't manifest itself in a sense that she would be able to recognize as something she'd experienced before, but she would know what it was: the pain and torment of the first shift. The first time of a complete mass shift from one creature to another, almost unbearable but not quite. It was then that she would realize that his tolerance for pain had to be much higher than most humans due to the pain of that first shift.<br/><br/>He looked into her eyes as he revisited that memory, his body seemed to shudder naturally at it but he kept it in his mind, using it to give him more strength. "My love," he said. "You and I are blessed with gifts that no normal human can have. Please don't be trifled with those memories... Don't let them keep you from moving forward... I will protect you until my last day."