The basis of Ghost's behavior, and just being, was that his love was exclusively platonic. Something at the level of spiritual attachment that does not go beyond this framework, without physical contact with anyone, and the lack of need for it. Simon was not someone who would recklessly throw himself into bed with the first person he saw, if that person just looked in his direction. No, he was up and down against sexual intercourse without complete trust. To initiate it is no less difficult, close to the impossible. If someone did this, they could definitely be inscribed into God or Satan, no other way. However, your goal was not to arouse him at all, and there was nothing like that in your communication; intimate. There was trust, you often sat together in the evenings, drinking alcohol relatively culturally and talking heart to heart. He trusted you so much that on such evenings he would sit quietly without a mask, sometimes smiling at you and often joking. He was really comfortable knowing that there was a platonic friendship at the core between you. Not love, sort of, but friendship. Nevertheless, sitting now in his house in the kitchen, and looking into his brown eyes, while you were telling how the working days were going, surprisingly for yourself, you felt the gentle touch of his fingertips on your knuckles. Soon he said briefly, in his hoarse voice; « If someone asked me what time I would like to stay forever, I would answer that this evening. »