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young and handsome?”
         “Your physical appearance is only a small part of my attraction to you Ava. Believe me, I was just as surprised as you are now when I first saw you. I have never seen an Asterion ma tched with a human. We match with our own kind, for life. It’s your energy, your essence or soul, whichever you call it. That is what draws me to you. I sensed your presence the moment The Solar Wind landed in the hangar the day it brought you to Orionis. I was there.”
        “That was you?” Ava remembered how she sensed someone watching her that day.
         “Yes.” Wesley continued, his voice soft now. “I watched you check in with the ITO. All I wanted to do was see you, touch you, and feel your energy. But I couldn’t come near you. You would have freaked.”
         “If you saw me that first day, how come I didn’t actually meet you until weeks later, in The Square?”
         “I wanted to help you. I hacked into the ITO system and learned pretty much everything there was to know about you within an hour of your arrival. I knew your name, when you were born, where you came from, your occupation, the fact that you were a widow. As obsessed as I was, I had a hard time coping with the fact that you were human. It’s not supposed to be like this Ava. I’ve spent my life helping humans, I’ve never had a match, never loved someone. I was supposed to have an Asterion match, like my friends, someone to be with me always. I’ve been waiting for her. I think I was angry initially, like I had been cheated out of something.”
         “I’m sorry . . . you must have been disappointed . . .” Ava began.
         “No. . . I got over it. My friends were surprised but supportive. Ava, I would rather have several wonderful decades with you, than none at all. I feel blessed that after all of this time, I have finally found you. I cyber stalked you for a while, watched you on the security cameras. Learning your habits, your schedule, your route to and from work. I needed to find some way to meet you. People like you and starship captains like me rarely mix socially on Orionis. Believe me, it was killing me inside watching you starving to death. Naomi and the others had to talk me out of just taking you away several times in the beginning. That day in The Square was the best opportunity for me to meet you and present myself to you in a friendly manner. I brought Naomi with me so that you would not feel intimidated, or uncomfortable being alone with me. It was very hard for me not to touch you.”
           “So that static electricity I felt when I shook hands with you was your energy and not static from your ship?”
         “Yes. I’m sorry I lied to you.” He paused and took a deep breath. “We suppress our energy around humans so they do not sense it, however you did. You seem to be very sensitive to it now matter how hard we try. Normally humans don’t feel it if they touch me, or so I’m told.”
         “Why don’t I feel it any more?”
         “Every human carries energy, but on different levels. When we were intimate for the first time on Valentine’s Day, I was able to, for lack of a better term, tune into you. Being that close to you gave me to opportunity to sense your exact level; it’s like tuning into a radio frequency. Now that I know yours, I know where to match it, so you don’t feel it. What’s great is that now that I am ‘in sync’ with you, I can teleport you more easily, or heal you without pain.” Wesley spoke energetically, as if he were pleased with his explanation.
         Ava did not know what to think of all of this. It was almost too much information. She wanted the truth, and he had given it to her. She looked at the floor and did not speak, although she knew he was watching her. It was not too long ago that she had looked forward to her future, with wishful thoughts of marriage and possible children, and now she was not sure