"I touched you," he said, unconsciously saying it as though it should be obvious. "It's...just that I was curious. I suppose you would call it a psychic ability. A type of psychometry, some have said. It's a fancy term for the ability to read the history of an object-or-or-person through touch. I have always had the ability. It's how I saw you.
"It was an invasion of privacy. But, I just didn't know...can we perhaps do the flirting thing again? I have a feeling it's a road that is far less...uncomfortable..." he said, uneasy.