Luminary (Expanded Edition)
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On the other side of the skimmed portal, Emily gazed at David, dazed, slightly intoxicated by the sensation she felt at the presence of this man. Headier than any wine she cooked with or otherwise consumed.
Feeling weird and at the same time completely at home with him, all her walls were down. That unusual sense of wonderment was still there. How odd, she thought, that something as ridiculous as a fall could lead to this. Whatever this is.
She felt wave after wave of emotion wash over her as if she were floating on the ocean. It wasn’t the agitation of a relentless surf inasmuch as the gentle caress of the clearest, bluest water. Her spirit buoyant. Heart thudding in double time with this unnamed joy. A tiny bubble of euphoria was bouncing inside her chest. With each internal impact her smile grew.
Emily would normally be red faced with embarrassment after falling in front of someone. She wasn't. It felt like her life was really beginning, finally. All she felt was safe, completely safe.
Here on the grass under the endless canopy of sky-blue, the birds seemed to be singing just for them. Was that real? Giddy, she didn’t trust her thoughts. Her mind drifting for some time with a comforting yet muddled sense of self-absorption.
Light from the sun glinting off them both. They sat together, side-by-side, bodies touching as she leaned against the hand that supported her back. She didn’t understand what this was. What caused it. For now, it was enough to be here with him in this moment. Their moment. Tomorrow would come soon enough.
Emily stared as David looked down at her, feeling her face glowing with warmth. The good kind.
His cyan gaze seemed to be shinning with a responding glow.
She felt another twinge in her chest. Different than before as if the cadence of her heart shifted its tempo. The organ erasing the former pattern that she had thus far lived life with, replacing it with a new one, where her heartbeat chimed in tune with the rhythm of its new found mate.