She could feel the sheets slip against the bare silky skin of her back as Cosima pulled the sheets off her body, replacing the sheet with herself, lying on top of Delphine and stroking her wavy blonde hair in a calm and comforting manner.

Delphine hummed contentedly, Cosima's fingers linking with hers; lying skin to skin, hand in hand, heart to heart though not physically. Their hearts touched on a wavelength that surpassed boundaries that could be explained by physics or chemistry or biology, but on some unseen spiritual level they were connected, whole again and connected as one.