<blockquote><div><cite>Dream Evil wrote:</cite>Terrence's heart began to beat faster, faster than it had in years.  He felt frozen where he sat, but he found himself looking at her.<br/>He both saw and sensed a new softness emanating from her and he found it...refreshingly comfortable.<br/>For the first time in his post-Fall life, he'd felt unsure and without an answer.  Though, he sensed and urge to feel her skin, to rekindle some forgotten joy that he knew he'd felt and had been corrupted like a bad data file.<br/>He reached up tentatively at first, like a child going to pet a scary-looking dog, though he knew deep within him there was absolutely nothing scary-looking or canine about this woman right now.<br/>As he got closer, his hand moved quicker until he was caressing her cheek with his palm softly.<br/>He didn't know why he was doing it and couldn't think of what was driving him to it, but he just put it up to the fact that she touched him first, and she was his bible after all.<br/>He felt embarrassed, "I...where do I go from here?"</div></blockquote>