"I noticed," he echoed quietly. It was pretty damn hard not to (the past three months not withstanding), even before the loss of most of the personal space between them. Asher didn't miss a single inch of it when it was gone.

"Where were you, uh... headed?" He probably could have stood there all day and just stared at him without getting tired of it, but that probably would have gotten in the way of much more important things Ray could have been doing. Unlike Asher, he was a productive member of island society.