—   When he puts his hands on her, she feels her human existence come alive with a burning urgency. Their eyes meet and she swears she can read the stories of his life, who he is and how he came to be, in the depths of brown, a galaxy she could get so lost in that she could disappear. Luckily, for her, the way his hands travel the expanse of cosmos that is her body sends her into orbit, carouselling around the sun and the moon and stars. He makes this beautiful mark on her senses; all she can feel is his touch and all she can see is him. Even as she sparks like a star in motion, begging for release from the hold he has on her.

   —   Begging is a dangerous game and resistance is futile; her body warms from the inside out and burns an iridescent glow of red and yellow and orange. So much so, that when she clenches the blues of her eyes closed, she can see the beginning of herself burning to flames until like a shooting star, she lets go of all she's known and what's comfortable and safe. Trading her place in this galaxy built just for them by the hands of fate themselves, some time ago when when the universe was virgin territory and everything existed in harmony, she trails through the Milky Way on this high only the two of them can feel until she's nothing but a mere leftover trail of light contrasting against the stark darkness of the midnight sky.

   —   It's a sight that hadn't been bestowed upon the pair, at least not as far as current memory allows them to remember; it paints itself as a mystifying comet, only showing itself and its magic when the time is absolutely right. But that shooting star lands itself in a crater, the safest place its ever known, circled by the embrace of his arms as their matching glows simmer to nothing but embers as they catch their breath and come back down to earth. The dusts of their souls mingle and linger, the stardust of their chance brush of the worlds inside each other's hearts draping over them like a warm blanket on a cool, dusty, desert night.

   —   For every shooting star she saw, she always wished for him. She kept her eyes wide open until they met his, waiting for fates to align and bodies to crash into one another, falling for him like tiny specks of space dust fall all around them after an explosion of mirrored souls find the place they belong.