His body is familiar to me - the way it moves, the smell of wood smoke, even the sound of his heart beating I know from quiet moments on a hunt - but this is the first time I really feel it, lean and hard-muscled against my own.

I think my ultimate motivator, driving force in life probably, is humor. I think that finding humor in any given situation gives me confidence because it always kind of makes you look at the silver lining in things.