[There was a palpable beat of silence between them.

Bulba blinked, his expression of worried concern contorting into slight confusion. What was this then? He smelled different? What... . . .

The perfectly logical explanation was lost on him, or he might have panicked. Oblivious to his own species way of handling things of the heart, Bulba just sat there in the continued intimate gesture while his brain could only think up question marks.]

.... Huh?