She felt him refusing to ask her her own business; a subtle tension filled the half of his body that still responded.

A sudden tension filled the air as the two forces surveyed each other.

He saw them and tension filled him, easily dismissing the earlier memory.

The planes were coming and going and the tension just filled the air.

And trembling, a new tension filling her, she looked at the hand on her waist.

The tensions boiling in him filled Kelexel with sudden wonder.

Their eyes locked, and a sudden tension filled the room.

"Nothing," he said, but she could feel tension fill his body.

But despite their inertia, or perhaps because of it, a slow, pre-erotic tension fills the air between them.

Relief, tension, and happiness unlike anything he'd ever experienced filled him.