"Oh." She says, with a shiver as her own body realizes the same fact. "Does it...does it pain you?" She asks. "Because I don't think I want you to stop either."

She wonders for a moment if the barbs had done something slightly different to him, while for her there was only the oddly euphoric, aphrodisiac effects she attributed to the pollen that made her an eager, desperate vessel for the need every inch of him seemed to burn with.