At first Tally's overcome with joy at the touch. Then when Gideon pulls away, she feels the distance between them grow--not cold, exactly, but not warm either.

"You're not, like, mad that I won, right?" she says, almost instantly regretting how anxious she sounds. "Or... was the kiss okay?" This was why it was so much easier to just be pretty, and not worry about things. Any pretty she'd kissed would have just kept kissing her and not made her wonder what was going on. Of course, a pretty would never have Gideon's personality, either. Being ugly-minded is turning out to be anything but simple.