"I think I would," Rosie says, the continued touch to her hair settling her just a little more. It always did, in one way or another, but something about it in the context of this moment now makes it all the more reassuring.

"The blindfold was good," she starts, after a moment of thought. "It made it all feel more...I wasn't sure what you were going to do, until you told me. It felt like being even more at your mercy, in a way."