Kai is pretty sure that most elfin don't have this sort of effect on him, the way his skin hums with the need to be closer. Kai's got plenty of reasons to keep that distance between them, though, reasons that he keeps reminding himself of.

"I think Ambassador Hinton probably had aims in taking you out here." Aims that weren't having his security do...whatever Kai and Marco were doing. "And we should stay close together here."