The moment I came to, I immediately felt strange. Ease in my body, an unusual taste in my mouth. Where on earth did we end up, and how well did we walk around that I had such odd sensations? When I stood up, I looked around the room. My gaze lingered on scattered things—it was strange, because he is quite pedantic—then moved to the torn curtain and stopped on the bed. Its look left no doubt that at night two people had slept there—perhaps quite intensely. My breath caught; my thoughts got tangled. Is it true I’m with him, and we… this very thing?