LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT As Eos approached along the sand, Tithonus looked up and fell in love with her quite as instantly and entirely as she had fallen in love with him. They held hands straightaway, without even having exchanged a word, and walked up and down on the shoreline as lovers do. “What is your name?” “Tithonus.” “I am Eos, the dawn. Come away with me to the Palace of the Sun. Live with me and be my lover, my husband, my equal, my ruler, my subject, my all.” “Eos, I will. I am yours forever.” They laughed and made love with the waves crashing around them. Eos’s rosy fingers found ways
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