[hed been trying to ignore the despairing thoughts and emotions that would naturally accompany dying. He'd been trying not to think about the fact that he had been nearly permanently separated from her. If that had happened in his world or hers, he wouldn't have come back...he'd never see her again. But those thoughts and emotions came to him now as she cried, and he couldn't help but join her. He kissed her harder, wrapping his arms and hands and tail around her and just feeling her physically there]