When she replied with a name that should have been offensive and might have been offensive if said in a different tone, but somehow, he knew it was a name meant for him. He was pleased by it, pleased he had remembered his half of things before... before... well, he didn't remember what came after, but he didn't care about that either right now.

He went on her reactions to base his touch on, but she didn't move away, slap his hand, or make it clear that he wasn't to touch her. It made him bolder as he caressed her cheek again before looking at her. "Are your circumstances not very good then?"

Her question stumped him, and he knew that he didn't really have an answer either. His conditioning would make him go with what he was ordered, but he didn't know what he would do when it came to her. He wanted to be close to her. "You could come with me, yes?"