Like I said – I should have known it looking at her. Because at the bottom, when it was just you pleading your case to logic, that cold, implacable and resolute force, women like her did not fall for men like me. Birds do not swim, nor fish fly. The sun gives heat, and the night steals it, and I would no more be loved than I would wake up one day to discover I’d grown a pair of eagle’s wings. Life is what it is – but by the Firstborn, sometimes you just want to pretend.
