Always Forever
“Church and Ruth chose to stay together in the same room for security, but they did not feel safe, even with a huge chest pulled across the door.Although the sounds were impossible to track, they knew the Tuatha De Danann were hunting the Walpurgis into the depths of Wave Sweeper. But Ruth knew how futile that exercise was, even if the gods understood the twisted confines of their ship. And so the questing continued into the small hours until it eventually died away. The silence was bitter and they knew the quarry had not been located.They woke in a beam of sunlight breaking through the bottle-glass windows, entangled like lovers, although they had only held each other for comfort. Their position brought embarrassment and they quickly hurried to opposite ends of the bed. Eventually, though, in the warmth of the morning sun and their relief that all was calm without, their legs were soon draping over each other as they chatted lazily."You don't think he did it, then?" Ruth asked as she ...brushed with crooked fingers at the tangles in her hair.Church threw open the windows so they could look out across the foamtopped waves.MoreLess
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