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“I am not safe. I cannot be too young or too old, too beautiful or too ugly. I cannot weep or rage. I cannot refuse a man nor fuck him nor marry him— a queen is only powerful i there are no kings or princes nearby."

Perhaps your lips remembered mine, and my hands recalled the shape of Yours; perhaps each time you touched me it left a subtle mark, so that my skin had become a map drawn in invisible ink, which might lead me back
to you.

Unless we were actually paper kites on a string, flying only where we were led.

The two of us were like a pair of merlins circling overhead, or two dancers in a line; with each pass, we drew a little nearer.

There had been a time when I had kissed your hand and a time when I hadn't; a time when I shivered alone all night, tormented by your absence, and a time I had slept beside you, tormented by your presence. A time when I had felt your mouth on mine, a second's stolen joy, and a time when I had only dreamed it.

At these times I found myself watching you, remembering the heat of your hand around mine, thinking of all the obvious ways two people might drive away the cold.