[A brief smile of appreciation crosses Liem’s features for Matt’s attempt to reassure him—as though having to tell an alternate-universe iteration of a past hookup about intimacy you had with them is totally normal. He appreciates the thought, even if he doesn’t quite get what Matt means.

Matt seems to expect Liem to know what he’s talking about, and though this could simply be an issue of it just never coming up between them in Horos, he nonetheless makes an effort to recall if he might simply have forgotten. It does seem like something he would remember, but…]

You did mention being able to… open up a connection with people you’re touching. Is that the sort of thing you mean?

[Yeah, no; the sex magic didn’t come up until about a week after Liem’s last memory of Horos, sadly.]