“It happened slowly and then all at once for me, you know.” My back fell against the stone wall of the tunnel. “The way I feel about you, it runs deep—an unheard of deep, blue thing. So blue, it’s black like the color of a ravens wing … In an ocean beneath an ocean on top of another ocean. Where you don’t know which way is up or down. No shallows, no bottom. That’s how deep, and it scares me sometimes. But then you’re there too, and we’re floating together in that deep place. And it’s peaceful there … quiet.”
