Yes, I breathed, and my eyes teared up. The creature was screaming again, my joy shredding its body in places, but it wasn't done. It was still reaching for me, inexorable, and it needed only a touch. It had been holding back when it touched me before, but I knew. One touch. My fear stood in the way of the joy, as I knew I might die before I got to explore whatever this was with Sabrina. Before I could tell her I loved her with my own voice.
"So what now? It's still here." Yes. I didn't know either. My happiness wasn't enough to kill it, or banish it. I was still too afraid, maybe. At this rate, she would just have to watch me die, from inches away.
"Can you show him that you love him?"
Sabrina blanched. "Right now?!"
"Yes."
My heart would be pounding right now if it wasn't already at
