“I love you as dark things are to be loved, with caution ... between the shadow and the soul.” - Pablo Neruda
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” - Plato
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. But this night ... this night.
The wolves are silent ... now only the moon howls.
To be nobody but yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Samuel McCord is such a man.
And he bears multiple curses. One such is his love for the alien Empress, Meilori Shinseen.
It will one day be the death of him. It is a price he is more than willing to pay.