He had wanted to love someone as the sea loved the land, or the land the sea, caught in that endless dance of shoreline and wave. He had wanted to love someone enough to go chasing them across the sky; he had wanted someone to love him enough to raise an island for him. He had wanted— He had wanted to catch that viau he had seen shining in the distance, that brilliant star darting across the sky, that beautiful, impossible, joy.
