“I’m also trying to remember what it felt like, that first night we were together,” she whispered at last. “It was everything,” Simon answered. He heard the brittle sound of his voice as if he no longer belonged to his own body and was listening from somewhere distant, somewhere golden and warm within the light of their rising power. “You were everything that night. You were the entire world, and I was safe inside you. For once, I felt safe.” Eliana slowly wrapped her arms around his torso, then pressed her cheek between his shoulder blades and held him. “So did I,” she whispered.
