I'd like to think so, too. That's what it feels like to me, to love someone.

[ Case in point. She reaches for his hand and squeezes it gently. ]

I guess there are some things you can't know without being told. That's just... what it means to be separate people. But I think seeing the way Helio treated me as Medea was the first time I really understood what love was. That he couldn't bear hurting me no matter how angry he was, because it was Medea's body. Even though he knew it was me. That he knew her, in a way no one else did.