RANDOM LINES FROM DRAGON AWAKENED

"I’m magnificent. Yeah." She couldn't help glance down at herself. "Fine, how do I get … what'd you call it? Activated?" Let's play along, see what he says.
"Now that you are well beyond the age of initiation, only I can open your eyes and awaken your powers."
Did his arrogance know no bounds? Dumb question, Ruby. "What do I have to give you for that?"
"You assume there's a price?"
"There's always a price." She could see that he had one, too.
He walked closer, too close. Again, breaching boundaries. She wouldn't move away. If only she didn't have to look up at him. His heat reached out to her, beckoning her. She stiffened her stance. The dragon tattoo eyed her from the left pectoral muscle of his chest, but no, she did not see it move.
He waited until she drew her gaze from it back to his face. "The price is that once you see, you can never go back to being blind. Once you know, you can never forget. Once you experience your true nature, you can never ignore it."
"Ignore what?"
He released a breath. "We'd better start with the small stuff."