She didn't blink at the way those cuts in his hands healed, didn't even find it all that fascinating, it just seemed... normal. That was the strange part, the unsettling thing about all of this. It all seemed normal, to be talking about things like this with someone. But it would be incredibly reckless to start experimenting when they didn't know how far things could go within the range of safety.

"I haven't been upstairs yet," she said with a shake of her head, "and I haven't seen anyone else here yet either." He could tell that they were alone? Tilting her head in curiosity, she decided just to go ahead and ask. "How can you tell we're the only ones here?"