[It is extremely effective]

[Thorn watches all of it leaning up against the wall, arms folded over his bare chest]

[From his body language - from his expression - anyone would be hard-pressed to know what's going on in his head]

[Cobalt, of course, has a front ow seat, and the want ramps up by slow degrees as the show goes on, by the end a delicious ache that seems to thrum in the air itself]