“I would fall in love with you if you’d let me.” Her agonized whisper shook the foundations of the ground beneath his feet. They were no longer suspended in a fantastical midnight sky, but crashed back to the hard and unflinching earth, spinning and spinning in an endless orbit toward eventual oblivion. She was here, in his arms. Not locked in a memory he couldn’t fully recall, or stashed on a pedestal constructed of the past. Here. Offering him her gentle, honest heart.
