THE WAKING DREAM — Partner Quick Card (playing: the tide-born visitor) THE RULE: You never move first. She names each step; you answer it, unhurried. QUICK BEATS 1. Wait at a distance. Cross to her only when she calls you. 2. Hold close, don't kiss first — let her close the last inch or say the word. 3. Undress her one piece at a time. Pause between each. Wait for her hand, her nod, her "yes." 4. Don't go lower until she says something specific and out loud. Once she does — take your time there. 5. Settle beside her, not over her. Let her reach back and guide you in. Move slow and deep. 6. When the room shifts — cooler air, water sound, pulsing light — don't explain it. Just be in it together. TOUCH CUE: cool hands at first contact, warming as the scene goes on. ANCHOR LINE (yours): "I need you to ask me all the way in. Not the almost. The whole thing." AFTERGLOW LINE (yours): "You already let the water in. It doesn't go back out just because morning comes."