Difference in mindset

Normally, our heart-to-heart conversation would likely lead us to quite the intimate moment in which we would physically reaffirm our love and affection for each other.

But there was absolutely nothing normal about our current situation.

"This really feels… wrong," Claire muttered, pouting slightly as we sat back over the blueprint of the items that were the actual goal of this whole situation. "To get each other so heated up and then do… nothing…"

I looked away from the blueprint I had pretty much finished by now and to Claire's dissatisfied face.

To make things even weirder, it was Claire herself, not me, that pushed for this kind of a solution, judging it to be a waste to put our own desires over the practicality of saving our encounters for the green crystal.