He has her in the palm of his hand. Where he is still flesh and can still feel, she holds him. It's chaste and soft, nimble fingers wrapped around his wrist and cherry stains upon the palm. Jasmine closes her eyes, focused. As if she can channel her feelings and bring him back to warm days when he could feel the sun on his skin. She's smiling," Be safe tonight."
[ 竜 ] – Touch is something sacred to Genji, more so now than it had been before. It was something never given to him freely, and it was something he perhaps gave too freely to all the wrong people once before. Never was it worth anything of real intimacy. All shallow, impersonal, something to fill an immediate need that he’d been so denied, then and there, and move on.
It was always strange to him when it was someone else who initiated, especially when there was nothing superficial about it, not looking to fulfill that immediate craving, looking for temporary satisfaction before moving on to the next victim.
Stranger now that everything was numb.
He can’t feel the softness of Jasmine’s skin, even upon where it touches his own, but he can feel how gently she touches him. Her fingers press small dents, organic tissue giving yield. But it’s... tender. And he takes it.
“You say it as though I should be worried about something.”