I"d shared picnics with Aken countless times in this very spot, yet this one felt different.
Probably because it was. I leaned my head against his shoulder and he trailed his hand up and down my arm in an intimate gesture that felt so right despite the fact we"d never done this before. But after last night, I didn"t think I"d ever have been able to go back to simply being friends. Not that there was any part of me that wanted to.
"Duat is beautiful," I said as I looked out at the sunset.
"It is."
"I think I prefer it here to the land of the living." It was the first time I"d ever properly said it out loud. I"d thought it a few times, and even hinted at it to people at certain points, but I"d never said the words properly.
"I think you"re supposed to," he responded. "Well, not you, but
