Adrien smiled as he listened to these words of his own as they were spilling from Val's lips, taken over by giddy joy and tender adoration. He found himself surprised by the depth of his feelings; he was coming to understand how much he'd yearned to give - choosing to believe in these new truths, in this new person that he was discovering himself to be. In each of his caresses there hid a wish to understand; he only needed to be at Val's side, to listen to his words, to feed from his kisses again. The shape of their future was new and mysterious, and the answers he sought could not come before they would arrive; he quivered to know, but still he wished to be nowhere else but there and then.