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loudly it would shatter, and he gave a single nod and leaned back in the couch. The warmth of the fireplace radiated outward and cast shadows against the mantle-piece.
                  Such a strange day , he mused. It was so odd where circumstances had led him, to a cozy cabin in the shadow of a mountain with a beautiful adventurous woman in his lap. He wanted to laugh again at how surreal it all was and opened his mouth to say something to Lily but her eyes were already closed. The steady rise and fall of her small breasts wrinkled the black tank-top and her lips were partly open. Her eyelids were shut tightly, and there was a serene and exhausted expression on his sleeping face, as if she hadn’t slept for days and was now perfectly at ease beside him.
                  He smiled and pulled the blanket further over her and she wriggled closer to him. Outside the rain hammered against the windowpanes, but everything was, for the first time, suddenly okay as Shane closed his eyes.
     

 
    4.
                  That night Shane had many strange dreams, a swirling and variegated collection of weird imagery that all conspired against him in confusion. But when he woke, there was one dream still solid and unwavering in his memory, and he had to blink several times to make sure he was actually awake.
                  He’d been on a beach somewhere. He could still feel the sensation of sand sinking between his toes, the coolness of it running up his calves. Giant sandstone cliffs behind him were crowned with Sitka spruce. The sound of the waves crashing had filled his ears, and he had felt at peace.
                  And then in the dream he had felt another presence near him as he gazed out at the slate grey depth of the ocean. He had felt someone behind him, and a small feminine hand wrapped between his. Then he had awoken.
                  He blinked again at the sunlight that was sifting in through the windowsill by the door and heard the patter of water dripping very slowly off the eaves. Somewhere a ratatat of a woodpecker issued from the forested hills. He yawned and looked down and saw that Lily was asleep, somehow during the night she’d switched positions and her head was now askew on his lap. One hand was raised next to her ear and she was breathing very quietly.
                  This was another dream that had suddenly become real. I think part of me thought that I would eventually wake up and it would all be a dream, meeting Lily . But it wasn’t, and he was awake, and could feel her squirm against his knees as she turned over and he could see her face in the morning light. She truly was beautiful. He stretched and she slowly opened her eyes and she smiled up at him.
                  “Oh, hi.”
                  “Oh, hi,” he repeated back, “did you sleep okay?”
                  She turned on his knees. “Yeah, for the most part. I was pretty zonked out. How about you? Sorry, I kind of hijacked you as a pillow.”
                  “I’m okay,” he said, “I can pretty much sleep in any position. I learned that a long time ago when I had to take the subway to work. I could virtually fall asleep standing up.”
                  “That’s a handy talent. You should teach me that one,” she said.
                  “It looks like it stopped raining at least,” he said and she slowly sat up and rubbed her eyes and looked around the room.
                  “That’s a godsend. My clothes are dry, too. Why don’t you go take a shower, I saw one in the bathroom. I don’t know if it’s hot or not. It’s my turn to make something to eat,” she insisted and bounded up and skipped to the kitchen.
                  He laughed until she squinted and gave him a look. “What’s so funny?”
                  “You, I suppose. You’re