"Fair enough," he said, but his eyes fell on her shoulder. The skin looked smooth, milky and he fell into a series of mental scenarios of how he wished he could proceed over the next few minutes. They all passed through his mind at once, and although it felt like ages, it might have only been a few seconds in reality.

After a moment of dumb blinking, he snapped back into the present.

"You...your skin looks...soft. Er...I mean, since before you had said the dress was like needles, but now you look like you feel soft. Very...soft."