She kissed him back, chest rising as if to try to press herself against him entirely. Her kisses lingered, tongue dancing along his teeth before she finally pulled back just enough to talk, but she like their closeness.

"It's a little different." She would never lie to him. "It's strange to think we've had so many experiences and yet, for you, we haven't. We both fell in a battle you have no knowledge of." Zahra paused, bringing her lips to kiss him again, eyes closed, breathing him in.

"A part of me is perhaps worried I am not the woman you remember."