He brought his hands back, focusing on her neck where it was tightest. Digging in his thumbs and shifting to use his fingers across the worst of it. Between that and the steam, it seemed to be doing something, but he also knew it was the sort of long term tension that wasn't going to disappear in one attempt.

Slowly, the touch drifted. Back up into her hair, down across her shoulders to work at the knots in her upper back.