"It's not nothing. Or experimentation. There is some experimentation, because I don't know how things feel and you need to help me work out what I like and what I don't. But I don't think you meant like that."

Cole didn't lie. Maybe, one day, he would work out why people lied, but he didn't yet.

"I think it would be awkward if we were tied together for years. Would it be the ankle, or the wrist? How long would the rope be?"