"You're encouraging me?" she asked, a slight smile to the words, but they sounded distracted, because they were - she was. She wished she could just be quiet and still for a second, could have the silence to memorize the pressure of his fingers on her jaw. Her lashes dipped for a moment, and then her gaze caught his again, a touch unfocused with something soft and undefinable. "Write me a letter once I've left?" she asked, slightly breathless from keeping herself from closing the tempting-nothing gap between their lips, perfectly aware that the question might seem strange, random, but secretly hoping he'd paid enough attention to her likes that it wouldn't surprise him, even if he wondered over it.