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At night we crossed the hollows of each other's skin, and when he kept I would lay beside him, feeling the warmth where our limbs octed, aching the soft pulse at his throat. His eyes had creases, and his neck had more. When people saw us, they thought I was younger. But though I looked and sounded like a mortal, I was a bloodless fish. From my water I could see him, and all the sky behind, but I could not cross over.

“I yearned for his hands, for all of him, mortal though he was, distant and dying though he would always be. […] The room was dark and warm from the day's heat.
Shadows draped the bed. No frogs sounded, no birds called. It was as if we had found the still heart of the universe. Nothing moved except for us.”

"I was too wild to feel any shame. It was true. I would not just uproot the world, but tear it, burn it, do any evil I could to keep him by my side."