She had to crawl forward a little and then kneel up in front of him. He stared at her with astonished eyes. Bernadette was seeing him again that brazenly handsome face and the luxuriant long blond hair of which he was surely vain. He had green eyes deep set in the sunburned skin meeting her stare with the same intensity.
A terrible weakness came over her. Something within her softened and warmed, and the softness seemed to grow., infecting her cold heart and dead spirit. Quickly she hut it off. But some understanding was coming to her.
She could touch him and she became stronger and more powerful but if he touched her she became warmer and softer. Softness and weakness Bernadette would not allow.
" You will show yourself to me," he said with the barest trace of a smile. Before she could think what to do, he let the strands of her pale, translucent hair flow through his fingers and she was standing free by his bed and a wave of humiliation passed through her. It was as if a paralyzed man was being manipulated and molested by his nurse. Her long dead heart thudded so loudly she wondered if he could hear it?
"No," she whispered, her form fading into insubstantial ether till only the outline of her shadow lay across his bed.
"I very much enjoy your endowments," she related to him, her voice coming from above his belly. " I like to put my hands between your legs and to caress you with my fingers.
"And let you see me? Maybe. But let you touch me? No. I do not believe I will do that."
Peter felt the gentle, cool press that forced his knees wide, the not-quite-cold caress of her invisible fingertips on his inner thighs, squeezing his calves firmly. He knew her cold lips would be upon the ridged length of his cock soon. The cold should have shrunk his erection as the touch of that temperature did to any man, but Peter had been having this "dream" for many nights, so he knew her cold breath would not have that effect on his manhood at all. She was in a special category all her own, mortal rules did not apply.