"No, I mean..." Coraline began, looking up at Percy with soft, wide eyes. She leaned forward to touch his furrowed brow, he was warm beneath her fingertips. Warm and soft, she smoothed his skin out and tried to ignore the blush in her cheeks. She just wanted to be with him, maybe not desperately and angrily like she had thought she had felt but just with him. Loving, not lost and not alone now. "I want to- I don't want to wait any more. But I don't- can we go slow?"