Valiska laughed out loud. "Ford looks with his eyes, ears, hands and everything else when it comes to actual science, and he hasn't got a fucking whit of sense about it either. But he will ask before using his hands with a sapient, and despite the fact that he wrote a book about the dos and don'ts of interspecies sex, he has to be encouraged to ask. We're polyfidelitous now, but even though he led a very interesting life before he met me, it took me months to get him to look at me with his hands, even after I dropped my dress on the floor to 'show him the wards' on my back."

She grins. "It's possible they're alternate universe versions of one another, which would be very funny, wouldn't it?"

[F**k DW notifications and their habit of NOT SHOWING UP. My apologies!]