![]() ![]() Her companion was quiet, his eyes closed, the movement of his chest regular as though he dozed. But unlike the peaceful happiness she had known before, an undercurrent of longing swept through her, as though true joy were just on the other side of a door she daren’t open. Such pleasure warmed her chest, more than she had felt in months. I can hear the cherubim and seraphim now groaning in chorus.” Then, sleepily: “If he was anything like the monster you deposited upon my pillow, he is probably tearing through pristine angels’ boots at this very moment. I suppose somewhere up there”-she gestured to the heavens-“is a snowy park in which he hunts for hare in the moonlight.” We could see everything as though it were day. “On nights like this, Beast and I used to wander the park at Shelton Grange searching for hare. ![]() But wrapped in her heavy cloak, she barely felt the cold. The moonlight was a winter moon’s, aloof and chill, and her breaths clouded upon the air. ![]()
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