Lake Lewisia #1003

Sometimes in the summer, it stayed light so late–and the two of them grew so desperate to see each other–that her lover ventured out before full dark. Donning gifted sunglasses and draped about in protective sheets of moss, they met her partway into the town rather than wait for her to make her way into the Buried Gardens entrance. On those evenings, she caught glimpses of amethyst talons striking sparks in the sunlight, glinting fierce and beautiful in a place they did not belong, in a place they chose all the same out of love.

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LL#1003