"Jaeger walked over and touched her. He would never know a winter night that would be as cold as her skin."

"Jaeger realized that he did not, could not, understand the Aensa, and that knowledge was a sighing regret and an ache in his mind. Even if the Aensamaster should kill Jaeger later, he could do nothing to the human that would be more painful than Jaeger's own certainty that he could not understand."