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for however long that lasts.
    If I gave in to Noah, to hope, I’d have no foundation left. No cold rock upon which to stand and bear the breaking of each moment. Besides, I was here to get answers out of him. For myself and for the world. Sure, that concern was a distant second to clinging on to whatever shred of sanity I had left.
    Sanity first.
    Everything else second.
    Unfortunately, number one was still very much in doubt. I arguably left sanity behind, back on Earth.
    Maybe my leaving was a manifestation of the death wish my doctors kept complaining about. What did they know? I didn't even yearn for cigarette. I hadn’t smoked long enough to form a habit.  
    I smoked to make a statement. It was a slap in the face to life. To the thing that was killing me.
    The only problem with slapping life in the face was that the sting always ended up on your own cheek. Sure, the delivery felt good. The release could be glorious. But the burn always came home to roost.
    Noah squeezed my hand and looked into my eyes with wrenching tenderness. For a flippant pick up line, he delivered it with total conviction.
    “Cora, I'm not lying to you. I'm not making any guarantees either. I know what cured me and I think it could do the same for you.”
    The conditionality of his statement hit me like a thrown brick. The world outside the inches between us was a dark blur. Every other event in the expanse of the outside cosmos was inconsequential. So unimportant that the universe didn't acknowledge even the probability.  
    All that mattered was the flaming fusion between us.
    If his face remained so close, I was either going to slap it or smother it with kisses. As soon as my brain decided which way it was going to fall.
    “I have two problems with the notion that having sex with you could somehow cure a fatal condition. One, it’s ludicrous. Two, I keep hearing ‘think’. As in, you have no idea but you'd like to try it anyway because you’re desperate and haven’t touched a female in a decade.”
    “I know it sounds crazy, but I'm alive today because of it. It didn't just save my life.”
    If my eyes rolled any harder, they’d roll out of my head.
    “Don't believe it if you don't want to.” He stood up and spread his arms wide. “Look at me, Cora.”
    I lifted my eyes to the almost elemental being standing before me. He radiated power. He radiated lust.
    Maybe that was me.
    “You know I wasn't like this when I left Earth. I've grown almost a foot and put on more muscle than should be medically possible.”
    He had a point there. He was a tall drink of muscled-up perfection.
    “I've done all manner of lab diagnostics. I've had the results verified below. I'm cured. More than that. I’m in peak physical condition. More than that. My body runs at a level that should only be a theoretically possibility.”
    I had no idea what to say that. It sounded like boasting but the evidence was in front of me. Nobody with a straight face could deny that he was a gloriously yummy physical specimen. Plus, I knew he was way shorter and skinnier when he left Earth.
    Was that enough to believe in some sex cure?
    I didn't know who to trust. I definitely didn't trust myself. Every fiber in my body screamed for him. My brain tried to come off all rational, but it was thinking the same exact thing.
    Cora, it's only logical to try anything that holds promise. Sleeping with him would be a price I'm willing to pay.
    Yea, brain. Nice try. I knew it wanted to ride him for as many seconds as I had left to live.
    “Let's assume for one insane minute that what you say is true,” I said. “Why is… mating… as you call it… a possible cure? Why can't I just get a shot or a pill or a spoonful of cure syrup?”
    “I wish it were that easy.”
    The hungry look in his eyes told me that wasn't the complete truth.
    “The cure is in my blood. In my body. It's deeper than that too. It's in my electromagnetic makeup. In many ways, the pathology resembles a