Patience watched him curiously, wondering what that sentence had been. She was torn between wanting to get to know him and wanting to keep enough of a distance to keep him safe from her sister, just in case she was ever questioned to the point where her knowledge of him came to light.
But she found she couldn't resist prompting him to continue, when his sentence trailed off. "You feel what?" she asked, gentle and genuinely interested in what he had to say.