"You alright now?"
She took her sweet five minutes fantasizing about different 'pink' stuff after that simple backhand kiss and if not for the fact that I can practically read her thoughts just from her heartbeat, micro-movements, and this hand that has crushed mine a few times during her blackout, I wouldn't have known these depths of her… thoughts.
She looked perfectly normal now, even while knowing just what kinds of thoughts she was having just from that small kiss.
A kiss on the back of a lady's palm was a general way of greeting in this empire. But... it was different for us.
She knew, the person that has never even said 'I love you' once in these past few days they were together, and the fact that she wouldn't be hearing that for a very, very, very long time, was enough to show just how great of a thing this one small genuine kiss meant.