Heron Lake Plateau got me praying, man, this hunger

Shit—Liffey'a heat had lasted a week last season. How had he forgotten that? Oh, right. "These hormones, " Rannoch mused quietly, "I can't think straight with you around, Liff." He couldn't help himself. 

"Alone time!" he thought abruptly after a thoughtful pause, studying her with enthusiasm. "We could just, you know, sneak away every day for some... "alone time" and... do what we need to do," his words were clunkily concocted but his excitement remained.  "I mean, it's probably pretty obvious but, it's all I really got right now."