Just for a moment…

He was finally able to rest, and that helped him see…how strange all this was.

Somehow the feelings, urges, of being a man had never overtaken him. He had thought himself above such things, with a rational scientific mind…but no longer.

He felt a harsh, hot, longing within him. The power of these feelings shocked him.

He knew it was his proximity to…her. Fascinating.

Perhaps it was due to his circumstances before the world had been destroyed, that he had never been able to match wits with a female before.

But whatever the reason, he found himself studying her, much as he would an experiment. She was something new. A part of himself he wanted to explore, a softer part that had lain dormant all this time he had been wedded to science.

The urge to procreate was indeed strong, fascinating, exciting. To touch the female form, explore it, and… not to be too hasty.

What of her feelings after all? Perhaps she just saw him as a passing fancy? A woman like her, unencumbered by rules of any kind. A girl would could change the laws of physics on a whim.

Was it possible that he was, as his friend would put it, “out of his league”?

A smirk curled on his face before he could stop it. No. He knew her, as no one else could know her. As an inventor, a thinker. He knew a part of her no other man would.

But he wanted the rest of her too.

Like any experiment, it would take planning and the right ingredients, right environment, but still, she would be his.

And maybe on the way he could get to know this primal part of himself she had awakened. Getting down to the dirty caveman part of his brain would be exciting and fascinating!