'The soft twinkle of the stars and galaxies fading in and out. The faint glimpses of the passing shooting stars that were barely visible. So faint that if one blinked, you would miss them. While the moon kept a faint white circle glowing around her...' he remembered these words in his beloved wife's voice from early last summer. How it seemed to magically open his eyes to the night sky. It gave him a new sense of wonder and awe to something he almost forgot how to cherish. But, it was she who was really full of wonder and awe.
He stood unseen for some time watching her as she sat up on the railing along the balcony to their bedroom balcony. She spent hours watching the stars in the sky and waiting for any shooting stars to pass along. Sometimes, she would whisper about it all as though he might be able to hear her when she felt he was still away on his business. Little did she realize that some nights, he would be standing just like this, admiring her from afar. His sunlight in the evening.
Elijah could stand there forever doing just this, if father time and life, would allow it. But eventually, he gave a sigh and stepped forward from his shadowed hiding spot, not wanting to be apart from her any longer. Silently, he stepped out on the balcony behind her, slowly wrapping his arms around her chest as she still sat in her way, staring up into the summer evening sky above them.
Without a word, he kissed her temple and caressed her waist slowly. She gave a pleased smile and wrapped her arms around his, tilting her head towards his to gently kiss his cheek and stroke her nose along it shorty after. Without hesitation, they share a small kiss followed with her whispered, "welcome home, my heart."
Simple words to anyone else but to him. He felt complete finally with these mere words from her lips. A voice like a song in itself to be treasured beyond all of time. With all of the musical compositions he had played or written in his long lifetime, she was the sweetest song of them all. And they shared it together, which only made it even sweeter. Through everything and anything, they still held strong in their love. She was his faery's song now. And they now shared in telling stories that they made with their new chapter of life.
She slide her legs down and wrapped around him her delicate arms, pulling him close and nuzzling into his nose with hers, a glint in her eyes as she did so, he could never resist nuzzling his nose back with hers and smiling from within. Then kissing her lips once again as he lifted her up to carry her across the balcony inside.
She always giggled when he moved them quickly across the way and it sounded like bells to his ears. They laid back upon their bed, holding each other close and sweet kissing as they softly whispered their stories about their time apart from each other. How they missed their time of late with his business keeping him away for such longer time than before. But, they would cherish the time they now have and fight the god Morpheus away from their slumber as long as they dared. For this was the secret to their gracefulness of the night sky.
What once seemed closed off and lost to him, was now opened and an endless possibility by her. He opened his heart and allowed her in, knowing what might come from it. But, this time, he would stop at nothing to keep this all safe. To keep his loves all safe.
