His reaction was... completely unexpected. Sure, okay, what they had was still pretty new, and trying to feel things out in the middle of a war was going to be fraught with weirdness, but the way he tensed suddenly under her touch frankly shocked her. So much so, that she pulled away, her smile gone.

"It has?" Maybe an hour, since they'd parted ways as she went to be debriefed.

How long had he been here?

"Um. Where are you staying? Maybe we should go somewhere private to talk," she said."