"You call it special. I'm not sure I can do that. Not with all I've been through." He'd lost too much, including of himself in trying to stay apart from the world so that he didn't hurt others.

"It means I consider you someone I don't want to lose yet," he said softly, almost shyly. "You're important to the life I have now, the one I want. Is that enough," he added in a small voice. Painfully shy in his social dealings and now nervous about how this might change things between them.

"There is often a... connection. A heightening of the senses between the two. It is an intimate act, after all. Especially to some," he added, looking anywhere but at Eames.