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"I'm not about to stand by and simply watch you sink into the vortex. You're stuck with me, for better or for worse, so you'd better start being more honest. With yourself and with me."

Lon moaned again. "Why would you inflict so much work onto yourself?"

"Because with you, old boy, it doesn't feel like work, not really. And even if it does, I'm willing. I don't even question that."

He readily relaxed his posture, however, in the safety of her gaze. She touched her fingertips against the glass as she unceasingly smiled down on him. In that moment, the bridal attire disintegrated away and she became only Eva.

His confidante. His friend. The one he'd been there for all summer, the one who'd been there for him.

...Lon lost his focus in observation of the intricate mosaic design, step after colorfully tiled step - until his wingtips stubbed against a marble lip rising about an inch from the floor. He looked up to meet the life-sized stone likeness of a courtier wooing a fair maiden above a fountain. The couple was white as purity and forever frozen mere inches from embrace. "The thrill of the chase," Lon murmured.